Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] cpufreq: schedutil: move slow path from workqueue to SCHED_FIFO task

From: Steve Muckle
Date: Wed Nov 23 2016 - 22:01:10 EST


Hi Viresh,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 01:53:19PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> This work was started by Steve Muckle, where he used a simple kthread
> instead of kthread-worker and that wasn't sufficient as some guarantees
> weren't met.

I know this has already gone in, but can you expand on the unmet
guarantees mentioned here just for my own (and perhaps others')
understanding?

thanks,
Steve