Re: [Update][PATCH v7 7/7] cpufreq: schedutil: New governor based on scheduler utilization data

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 02:18:33PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Ingo reminded me that the schedutil governor is part of the scheduler
> > proper and can access scheduler data because of that.
> >
> > This allows us to remove the util and max arguments since only the
> > schedutil governor will use those, which leads to some further text
> > reduction:
> >
> >   43595    1226      24   44845    af2d defconfig-build/kernel/sched/fair.o.pre
> >   42907    1226      24   44157    ac7d defconfig-build/kernel/sched/fair.o.post
> >
> > Of course, we get more text in schedutil in return, but the below also
> > shows how we can benefit from not being tied to those two parameters by
> > doing a very coarse deadline reservation.
> 
> OK
> 
> Do you want this to go into the series or be folded into the schedutil
> patch or on top  of it?

We can do it on top; no need to rush this.