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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 02/16] sched: Introduce CONFIG_SCHED_ENERGY
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 07:16:29PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> The Energy-aware scheduler implementation is guarded by
> CONFIG_SCHED_ENERGY.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/Kconfig | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index ab438cb..bfc3a85 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig

Is this going to be duplicate for each architecture enabling this? Why
not make a kernel/Kconfig.energy and link to that from those
architectures using it?

> @@ -1926,6 +1926,11 @@ config XEN
> help
> Say Y if you want to run Linux in a Virtual Machine on Xen on ARM.
>
> +config SCHED_ENERGY
> + bool "Energy-aware scheduling (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> + help
> + Highly experimental energy aware task scheduling.
> +

how about adding *slightly* more info here? :) (yes, yes, I know it's an RFC)

"""
Highly experimental energy aware task scheduling.

This will allow the kernel to keep track of energy required for
different capacity levels for a given CPU. That way, the scheduler can
make more informed decisions as to where a newly woken task should be
placed. Heterogenous platform will benefit the most from this option.

Enabling this will add a significant overhead for a task-switch.

If unsure, say N here.
"""

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