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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: schedutil: govern how frequently we change frequency with rate_limit
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:15:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2324492.GOLxZvFDJN@aspire.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170216123605.GA6515@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Thursday, February 16, 2017 01:36:05 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 03:42:10PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > But when I discussed this with Vincent, he suggested that it may not be required
> > at all as the scheduler (with the helped of "decayed") doesn't call into
> > schedutil too often, i.e. at least 1 ms. And if the CPUs are stable enough (i.e.
> > no interruptions to the running task), we wouldn't reevaluate before the next
> > tick.
> 
> There are still the attach/detach callers to cfs_rq_util_change() that
> kick in for fork/exit and migration.
> 
> But yes, barring those we shouldn't end up calling it at silly rates.

OK

Does this mean that running governor computations every time its callback
is invoked by the scheduler would be fine?

Thanks,
Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-17 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-15 17:15 Viresh Kumar
2017-02-15 22:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-15 22:52   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-16  0:02     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-16 10:12       ` Viresh Kumar
2017-02-16 12:36         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-17 12:15           ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2017-02-17 12:48             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-20  9:58               ` Viresh Kumar
2017-02-20 13:49                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-20 14:53                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-16  6:27   ` Viresh Kumar

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