Re: [PATCH v10 02/15] sched/cpufreq: Prepare schedutil for Energy Aware Scheduling

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Dec 11 2018 - 07:01:38 EST


On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:56 AM Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
> +/**
> + * enum schedutil_type - CPU utilization type
> + * @FREQUENCY_UTIL: Utilization used to select frequency
> + * @ENERGY_UTIL: Utilization used during energy calculation
> + *
> + * The utilization signals of all scheduling classes (CFS/RT/DL) and IRQ time
> + * need to be aggregated differently depending on the usage made of them. This
> + * enum is used within schedutil_freq_util() to differentiate the types of
> + * utilization expected by the callers, and adjust the aggregation accordingly.
> + */
> +enum schedutil_type {
> + FREQUENCY_UTIL,
> + ENERGY_UTIL,
> +};

Why not to use bool instead of this? Do you expect to have more than
just two values in the future? If so, what would be the third one?