Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] sched: Introduce CONFIG_SCHED_ENERGY

[Morten Rasmussen]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:23:53AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:06:41AM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> > How would you like to disable the energy stuff for users for whom
> > latency is everything?
> > 
> > I mean, we are adding some extra load/utilization tracking. While I
> > think we should do everything possible to minimize the overhead, I think
> > it is unrealistic to assume that it will be zero. Is a some extra 'if
> > (energy_enabled)' acceptable?
> > 
> > I'm open for other suggestions.
> 
> We have the jump-label stuff to do self modifying code ;-) The only
> thing we need to be careful with is data-layout.

Thanks. I can see that it is already used in for various bit in
kernel/sched/*. I didn't catch anything in Documentation/static-keys.txt
related to data-layout caveats. Is there some other
documentation/patches I should read before messing everything up? ;-)

> So I'm _hoping_ we can do all this without more CONFIG knobs, because
> {PREEMPT*SMP*CGROUP^3*NUMA^2} is already entirely annoying to
> build and run test, not to mention that distro builds will have no other
> option than to enable everything anyhow.

Fair enough.
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