Re: [PATCH v8 10/11] virt/steal_governor: Implement steal_governor policy loop

[Yury Norov]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 12:44:03PM +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> Hi Yury.

...

> > > +	schedule_delayed_work(&sg_core_ctx.work,
> > > +			      msecs_to_jiffies(sg_core_ctx.interval_ms));
> > 
> > If you need jiffies, why don't you have them in the structure, instead of
> > milliseconds?
> > 
> > 	schedule_delayed_work(&sg_core_ctx.work, sg_core_ctx.delay);
> > 
> 
> I would prefer milliseconds as jiffies is very difficult for users to understand.
> It depends on HZ value and one has to query from configs.
> 
> HZ can very from 100 to 1000 today. Again I will have to play tricks to schedule
> the governor at fixed intervals.
> 
> So i think it is better to use milliseconds here.
> Correct me if i am not making sense.


User provides milliseconds, then in init() you convert them into
jiffies and save in sg.delay. That's it.