Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: schedutil: Use policy-dependent transition delays

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Tue Apr 11 2017 - 07:14:53 EST


On 11-04-17, 00:20, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Make the schedutil governor take the initial (default) value of the
> rate_limit_us sysfs attribute from the (new) transition_delay_us
> policy parameter (to be set by the scaling driver).
>
> That will allow scaling drivers to make schedutil use smaller default
> values of rate_limit_us and reduce the default average time interval
> between consecutive frequency changes.
>
> Make intel_pstate set transition_delay_us to 500.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This is a replacement for https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9671831/
>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 2 ++
> include/linux/cpufreq.h | 7 +++++++
> kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Should we use this new value for the ondemand/conservative governors as well?

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viresh