[PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: major refresh

Kevin Hilman
2014-08-08T18:44:37Z

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Kevin Hilman wrote:

[...]

>> I think the upstream defconfigs should facilitate the broader testing of
>> the scheduler work by having the swticher disabled.
>>
>> By enabling the switcher (and the corresponding cpufreq switcher driver)
>> by default, we're now actually making one more obstacle for broader
>> testing of the generic scheduling on all cores.
>
> The generic scheduler currently has nothing really worth testing by the
> wider audience. Be assured that when it does then the switcher will
> indeed default to off.

I guess my vacation successfully purged my memory. I was thinking the
switcher was only a complie-time option, but just realized that it can
be disabled at runtime (via /sys/kernel/bL_switcher/active.)

With the runtime enable/disable feature of the switcher, I don't have
any more (reasonable) objections to it being enabled by default.

Kevin