Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Remove stale FREQUENCY_UTIL comment

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Tue Mar 05 2024 - 10:05:20 EST


On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 10:51, Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> effective_cpu_util() flags were removed, so remove the comment part
> mentioning it.
>
> commit 9c0b4bb7f6303 ("sched/cpufreq: Rework schedutil governor performance estimation")
> reworked effective_cpu_util() removing enum cpu_util_type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 533547e3c90a..6b0c47d00fd3 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -7849,8 +7849,6 @@ eenv_pd_max_util(struct energy_env *eenv, struct cpumask *pd_cpus,
> * Performance domain frequency: utilization clamping
> * must be considered since it affects the selection
> * of the performance domain frequency.
> - * NOTE: in case RT tasks are running, by default the
> - * FREQUENCY_UTIL's utilization can be max OPP.

Yes, it's no more accurate.
Should we update the comment instead of deleting it as the effect is
still there ?
"NOTE: in case RT tasks are running, by default the min utilization
can be max OPP."


> */
> eff_util = effective_cpu_util(cpu, util, &min, &max);
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>