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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v1 3/8] sched/cpufreq_schedutil: make worker kthread be SCHED_DEADLINE
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 15:07:09 -0700
> Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>> > It is rather long. Although I actually hate the SUGOV, it is easily
>> > grepable. Just comment what it stands for. We can always change it
>> > later.
>>
>> I was thinking why not just SCHED_FLAG_CPUFREQ. That says its for
>> cpufreq purposes, and is a bit self-documenting. "WORKER" is a bit
>> redundant and can be dropped in my opinion.
>
> I was thinking that too, but was wondering how tightly coupled is this
> with SCHED_DEADLINE? I like the searchability of SUGOV, where as
> CPUFREQ is still quite broad.

Yes this is tightly coupled with DL so in that case probably a more
specific name is better as you mentioned.

thanks,

-Joel

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