linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] arm64: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_ENERGY

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Date:   Wed, 15 May 2019 10:22:44 +0100
From:   Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     edubezval@...il.com, rui.zhang@...el.com, javi.merino@...nel.org,
        viresh.kumar@...aro.org, amit.kachhap@...il.com, rjw@...ysocki.net,
        will.deacon@....com, catalin.marinas@....com,
        dietmar.eggemann@....com, ionela.voinescu@....com,
        mka@...omium.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] arm64: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_ENERGY_MODEL

On Wednesday 15 May 2019 at 10:46:09 (+0200), Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 15/05/2019 10:23, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > The recently introduced Energy Model (EM) framework manages power cost
> > tables for the CPUs of the system. Its only user right now is the
> > scheduler, in the context of Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS).
> > 
> > However, the EM framework also offers a generic infrastructure that
> > could replace subsystem-specific implementations of the same concepts,
> > as this is the case in the thermal framework.
> > 
> > So, in order to prepare the migration of the thermal subsystem to use
> > the EM framework, enable it in the default arm64 defconfig, which is the
> > most commonly used architecture for IPA. This will also compile-in all
> > of the EAS code, although it won't be enabled by default -- EAS requires
> > to use the 'schedutil' CPUFreq governor while arm64 defaults to
> > 'performance'.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>

Thanks !
Quentin