Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil

From	Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil
Date	2017-05-19 07:00 +0200
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On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> wrote:
>> If cpufreq policy has iowait boost enabled, use it. Also make it a schedutil
>> configuration from sysfs so it can be turned on/off if needed (by default use
>> the policy value).
>
> As I understand it, you want to make iowait boost optional. It may be worth
> mentioning why we want to do that in the commit somewhere. I am quite sure
> you don't want for some of the ARM platforms. Can you please elaborate?

Yes, I actually have power measurements too which I will include in v2.
This is for an arm64 based Qualcomm SoC.

thanks,

-Joel

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[PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> - 2017-05-18 20:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-05-19 03:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> - 2017-05-19 03:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-05-19 06:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2017-05-19 06:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> - 2017-05-19 07:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use iowait boost policy option in schedutil Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> - 2017-05-19 07:00 +0200

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