Re: [RFC] Should we add Android's Interactive governor into mainline now?

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 12-05-16, 14:10, Steve Muckle wrote:
> By far the biggest user of interactive is Android (I'm not aware of its
> use elsewhere). Persuading Google to switch is relatively doable once a
> viable alternative exists. After that point I'd expect the desire to
> merge and maintain interactive would almost immediately disappear. Folks
> wanting to run upstream kernels on already released devices have much
> bigger hurdles than merging the interactive governor.
> 
> But if interactive is merged I'm worried that many other users on random
> platforms will adopt it, for whatever reason, introducing a support
> burden during a time that we're trying to develop and encourage an
> alternative.

Lets assume that its going to take enough time for (specially) Android to start
using the schedutil governor. That's how it works.

So, if we are worried about new users using it (who may not have a good reason
to do that but did it by mistake), maybe we can make the interactive governor
depend on CONFIG_ARM.

> Anyway that's just my $.02 - it'd actually be good for me as
> again it'd permit easier comparison with schedutil, so I won't complain
> if it goes in :) .

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viresh