Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] thermal/cpu idle cooling: Introduce cpu idle cooling driver

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Thu Jun 08 2017 - 03:52:34 EST


On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 11:59:12PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 09:11:35AM +0530, viresh kumar wrote:
> >> + Daniel
> >
> > Hi Viresh,
> >
> > thanks for the head up.
> >
> > Before going deeply in the review, I have a dumb question:
> >
> > Why isn't this mechanism implemented at the scheduler level?
>
> I suppose for the same reason why intel_powerclamp is not implemented
> like that: the scheduler maintainers don't like the idea.

Ok, I see.

Thanks.

-- Daniel


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