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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Scheduler idle notifiers and users

* Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org> wrote:

> When you say accommodate all hardware, does it mean we will
> keep around CPUfreq and allow attempts at improving it? Or we
> will completely move to scheduler based CPU freq scaling, but
> won't try to force atomicity? Say, may be queue up a
> notification to a CPU driver to scale up the frequency as soon
> as it can?

I don't think we should (or even could) force atomicity - we
adapt to whatever the hardware can do.

But the design should be directed at systems where frequency
changes can be done in a reasonably fast manner. That is what he
future is - any change we initiate today takes years to reach
actual products/systems.

> IMHO, I think the problem with CPUfreq and its dynamic
> governors today is that they do a timer based sampling of the
> CPU load instead of getting some hints from the scheduler when
> the scheduler knows that the load average is quite high.

Yes - that is one of the "frequency changes are slow"
assumptions - which is wrong.

Thanks,

Ingo


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