linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 10/14] sched/cpufreq: Refactor the utilization aggregation method

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Date:   Thu, 2 Aug 2018 14:33:15 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     skannan@...eaurora.org
Cc:     Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>, rjw@...ysocki.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, mingo@...hat.com,
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        chris.redpath@....com, patrick.bellasi@....com,
        valentin.schneider@....com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/14] sched/cpufreq: Refactor the utilization
 aggregation method

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:35:27PM -0700, skannan@...eaurora.org wrote:
> On 2018-07-24 05:25, Quentin Perret wrote:
> If it's going to be a different aggregation from what's done for frequency
> guidance, I don't see the point of having this inside schedutil. Why not
> keep it inside the scheduler files? Also, it seems weird to use a governor's
> code when it might not actually be in use. What if someone is using
> ondemand, conservative, performance, etc?

EAS hard relies on schedutil -- I suppose we need a check for that
somewhere and maybe some infrastructure to pin the cpufreq governor.

We're simply not going to support it for anything else.

> > +enum schedutil_type {
> > +	frequency_util,
> > +	energy_util,
> > +};
> 
> Please don't use lower case for enums. It's extremely confusing.

How is that confusing?