On 7/27/20 8:28 AM, Phil Auld wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 06:58:32AM -0400 Prarit Bhargava wrote:
On 7/24/20 4:56 PM, GitLab Bridge on behalf of prauld wrote:
From: prauld on gitlab.com
CONFIG_ENERGY_MODEL will help make the schedutil frequency governor more accurate. This will be useful in the future. It also enables the use of the energy aware scheduler.
Signed-off-by: Phil Auld pauld@redhat.com
pauld, I was looking at this config the other day. I was wondering if it changes the existing default scheduler choice?
It allows the use of Energy aware scheduling which is primarily (currently only) for assymetric systems. It doesn't change the default scheduler classes. We'll still get CFS be default with the option to do RT and Deadline as before.
I don't think RHEL currently deals with assymetric CPU capacity yet. But that may change. I wanted to get it enabled for ELN so that if/when we do need it it will be there w/o potential kABI issues.
Primarily, there is interest in making the schedutil frequency governor the default and this relies on having the eneregy model built. Right now we use the performance governor in RHEL but if schedutil gets to where it provides the same performance while still being able to reduce power when less busy then that could change.
Just enabling this config should not change that.
Cheers, Phil
I can't remember if I acked this or not. In any case a second one won't do any harm.
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava prarit@redhat.com
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