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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v1 3/8] sched/cpufreq_schedutil: make worker kthread be SCHED_DEADLINE
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 08:56:32PM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:

> > @@ -3998,7 +3998,9 @@ static int __sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p,
> > }
> >
> > if (attr->sched_flags &
> > - ~(SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK | SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM))
> > + ~(SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK |
> > + SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM |
> > + SCHED_FLAG_SPECIAL))
> > return -EINVAL;
>
> I was thinking if its better to name SCHED_FLAG_SPECIAL something more
> descriptive than "special", since it will not be clear looking at
> other parts of the code that this is used for the frequency scaling
> thread or that its a DL task. I was thinking since this flag is
> specifically setup for the sugov thread frequency scaling purpose, a
> better flag name than SPECIAL might be SCHED_FLAG_DL_FREQ_SCALE or
> SCHED_FLAG_FREQ_SCALE. But I am Ok with whatever makes sense to do
> here. Thanks,

SCHED_FLAG_IM_DOING_IT_WRONG ;-)

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