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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid decreasing
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:00:17 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 04:18:52PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> +static bool sugov_cpu_is_busy(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu)
> +{
> +	unsigned long idle_calls = tick_nohz_get_idle_calls();
> +	bool not_idle = idle_calls == sg_cpu->saved_idle_calls;
> +
> +	sg_cpu->saved_idle_calls = idle_calls;
> +	return not_idle && this_rq()->rd->overload;
> +}

So I really don't understand the rd->overload thing. What is it supposed
to do here?