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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/8] sched/cpufreq_schedutil: make worker kthread
 be SCHED_DEADLINE
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 17:58:05 -0400
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 15:11:45 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:

> On Friday, July 07, 2017 11:53:16 AM Juri Lelli wrote:
> > On 07/07/17 12:46, Thomas Gleixner wrote:  
> > > On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Juri Lelli wrote:  
> > > > How about SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV then?  
> > > 
> > > I know sugo della carne, but what's sugo V?
> > >   
> > 
> > Right.. can't really help not thinking about the same (especially close
> > to lunch) :)
> > 
> > But the abbreviation stands for SchedUtil GOVernor (AFAIK). We already
> > have a SUGOV_KTHREAD_PRIORITY (that I just noticed I need to remove BTW)
> > in sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c.  
> 
> SCHED_FLAG_CPUFREQ_WORKER comes to mind, but it's somewhat long.
> 

It is rather long. Although I actually hate the SUGOV, it is easily
grepable. Just comment what it stands for. We can always change it
later.

-- Steve