Re: [PATCH 2/4] sched: cpufreq: Keep track of cpufreq utilization update flags

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 5:59 AM, Viresh Kumar [off-list ref] wrote:

On 17-12-17, 01:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

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We can do that in principle, but why should it return early?  Maybe it's
a good time to update things, incidentally?

I actually don't like the SCHED_CPUFRREQ_CLEAR flag *concept* as it is very
much specific to schedutil and blatantly ignores everybody else.

Alternatively, you could add two flags for clearing SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT and
SCHED_CPUFREQ_DL that could just be ingored entirely by intel_pstate.

So, why don't you make SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT and SCHED_CPUFREQ_DL "sticky" until,
say, SCHED_CPUFREQ_NO_RT and SCHED_CPUFREQ_NO_DL are passed, respectively?

I didn't like adding scheduling class specific flags, and wanted the code to
treat all of them in the same way. And then the governors can make a policy over
that, on what to ignore and what not to. For example with the current patchset,
the governors can know when nothing else is queued on a CPU and CPU is going to
get into idle loop. They can choose to (or not to) do something in that case.

Well, if SCHED_CPUFRREQ_CLEAR means "this CPU is going to enter the
idle loop" really, then it is better to call it
SCHED_CPUFRREQ_ENTER_IDLE, for example.

SCHED_CPUFRREQ_CLEAR meaning basically "you should clear these flags
now" doesn't seem to convey any information to whoever doesn't
squirrel the flags in the first place.