Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: schedutil: Don't restrict kthread to related_cpus unnecessarily"

[Juri Lelli]

On 08/05/18 16:23, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 08-05-18, 12:36, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> > That's true but where is the benefit by doing so? (Multiple) per-cluster or
> > per-cpu frequency domains, why should the sugov kthread run on a foreign
> > cpu?
> 
> I am not sure I know the answer, but I have a question which you can
> answer :)
> 
> Is it possible for a CPU (which already has high priority deadline
> activity going on) to be busy enough to be not able to run the
> schedutil kthread for sometime ? That would be the only case I believe
> where it would be better to let some other CPU go and change the
> frequency for this one as we better run faster while we have the high
> load going on.

Shouldn't happen. This kthreads are "special" and will preempt any other
DL task (stop class win of course).