Re: [PATCH v3] sched/core: add forced idle accounting for cgroups

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 13:57:27 EST


Hello,

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:35:21PM -0700, Josh Don wrote:
> > Would it make sense to namespace the name to reflect the fact that
> > this is tied to core scheduling? e.g. something like
> > core.force_idle_usec (and yeah, underscore between words, please). I
> > kinda hate that the feature is named "core". The word is so
> > overloaded.
>
> Sure, although a namespace of "core_sched" would be a bit clearer,
> since as you point out "core" is pretty overloaded :)

Yeah, core_sched is probabaly better and hopefully it'll get better as
we get used to the name.

> Lack of underscore for forceidle was to be consistent with
> "core_forceidle_sum" being dumped from /proc/pid/sched, but I'm fine
> with it either way.
>
> So,
>
> core_sched.force_idle_usec ?

Yeah, that'd be my preference.

Thanks.

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tejun