Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] cpufreq / sched: Make schedutil access utilization data directly

[Steve Muckle]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:38:17AM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > > Anyway one way that my patch differed was that I had used the flags
> > > field to keep the behavior the same for both RT and DL.
> 
> Do you mean "go to max" policy for both, until proper policies will be
> implemented in the future?

Yep.

> > That happens
> > > later on in this series for RT but the DL policy is modified as above.
> > > Can the DL policy be left as-is and discussed/modified in a separate
> > > series?
> 
> Not that we want to start discussing this point now, if we postpone the
> change for later, but I just wanted to point out a difference w.r.t.
> what the schedfreq thing was doing: it used to sum contributions from
> the different classes, instead of taking the max. We probably never
> really discussed on the list what is the right thing to do, though.

Yeah I figured that was worth deferring into its own patchset/thread.

cheers,
Steve