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From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Introduce thermal pressure
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:23:48 +0200
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On 10/10/18 14:04, Vincent Guittot wrote:

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> The problem was the same with RT, the cfs utilization was lower than
> reality because RT steals soem cycle to CFS
> So schedutil was selecting a lower frequency when cfs was running
> whereas the CPU was fully used.
> The same can happen with thermal:
> cap the max freq because of thermal
> the utilization with decrease.
> remove the cap
> the utilization is still low and you will select a low OPP because you
> don't take into account cycle stolen by thermal like with RT

What if we scale frequency component considering the capped temporary
max?