linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] cpufreq: schedutil: move slow path from workqueue to SCHED

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Date:   Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:52:35 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@...up.it>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
        "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@....com>,
        Robin Randhawa <robin.randhawa@....com>,
        Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] cpufreq: schedutil: move slow path from workqueue to
 SCHED_FIFO task

On 11 November 2016 at 20:09, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
>> >+    struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 50 };
>>
>> won't you have a tunable here? (sysctl?)
>
> You can use the regular userspace tools, like schedtool and chrt to set
> priorities.

I wanted to get some help from you on this Peter. The out of tree Interactive
governor has always used MAX_RT_PRIORITY - 1 here instead of 50.

But Steve started with 50. What do you think should the value be ?

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viresh