linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] cpufreq: Replace timers with utilization update callbacks

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Message-ID: <56B93548.9090006@linaro.org>
Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:39:36 -0800
From:	Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@...aro.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] cpufreq: Replace timers with utilization update
 callbacks

Hi Rafael,

On 02/08/2016 03:06 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Now that all review comments have been addressed in patch [3/3], I'm going to
> put this series into linux-next.
> 
> There already is 20+ patches on top of it in the queue including fixes for
> bugs that have haunted us for quite some time (and that functionally depend on
> this set) and I'd really like all that to get enough linux-next coverage, so
> there really isn't more time to wait.

Sorry for the late reply. As Juri mentioned I was OOO last week and
really just got to look at this today.

One concern I had was, given that the lone scheduler update hook is in
CFS, is it possible for governor updates to be stalled due to RT or DL
task activity?

thanks,
Steve