linux-kernel - Re: [RFCv7 PATCH 03/10] sched: scheduler-driven cpu frequency selection

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Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2016 19:50:03 -0800
From:	Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@...aro.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@....com>,
	Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>,
	Ricky Liang <jcliang@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [RFCv7 PATCH 03/10] sched: scheduler-driven cpu frequency
 selection

On 03/02/2016 06:49 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> I'm not actually sure if RT is the right answer here.  DL may be a
> better choice.  After all, we want the thing to happen shortly, but
> not necessarily at full speed.
> 
> So something like a DL workqueue would be quite useful here it seems.

The DL idea seems like a good one to me.

It would also prevent cpufreq changes from being delayed by other RT or
DL tasks.

thanks,
Steve