Re: [PATCH 00/14] Modularize schedutil

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 10:11:28AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 07:09:58PM +0100, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > One challenge to implement GKI is to avoid bloating the kernel by
> > compiling too many things in, especially given that different devices
> > need different things. As such, anything that can be turned into a
> > module helps GKI, by offering an alternative to having that component
> > built-in. This is true for pretty much anything that can be made
> > modular, including drivers as well as other kernel components, such as
> > CPUFreq governors.
> 
> The idea is to move to 1 governor, schedutil. Also, I abhor all the
> exports this thing does. Modules have no business touching most of that.
> 
> Look at every EXPORT you do and wonder ask yourself how you can abuse
> it. Modules are not a good thing, they're horrible pieces of crap.

Quentin, what is missing from schedutil that warrants the need for a
totally different governor?  Is there specific problems with the
existing ones or is this just an instance of "we wrote our own a long
time ago and never pushed it upstream" from various SoC companies?

thanks,

greg k-h