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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 18:15:49 -0400
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 15:07:09 -0700
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> wrote:


> > 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.  
> 
> I was thinking why not just SCHED_FLAG_CPUFREQ. That says its for
> cpufreq purposes, and is a bit self-documenting. "WORKER" is a bit
> redundant and can be dropped in my opinion.

I was thinking that too, but was wondering how tightly coupled is this
with SCHED_DEADLINE? I like the searchability of SUGOV, where as
CPUFREQ is still quite broad.

-- Steve