On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:15:56PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 01:36:05 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 03:42:10PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
But when I discussed this with Vincent, he suggested that it may not be required at all as the scheduler (with the helped of "decayed") doesn't call into schedutil too often, i.e. at least 1 ms. And if the CPUs are stable enough (i.e. no interruptions to the running task), we wouldn't reevaluate before the next tick.
There are still the attach/detach callers to cfs_rq_util_change() that kick in for fork/exit and migration.
But yes, barring those we shouldn't end up calling it at silly rates.
OK
Does this mean that running governor computations every time its callback is invoked by the scheduler would be fine?
I'd say yes right up till the point someone reports a regression ;-)