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Viresh Kumar committed 02a7b1ee3ba
cpufreq: schedutil: move slow path from workqueue to SCHED_FIFO task If slow path frequency changes are conducted in a SCHED_OTHER context then they may be delayed for some amount of time, including indefinitely, when real time or deadline activity is taking place. Move the slow path to a real time kernel thread. In the future the thread should be made SCHED_DEADLINE. The RT priority is arbitrarily set to 50 for now. Hackbench results on ARM Exynos, dual core A15 platform for 10 iterations: $ hackbench -s 100 -l 100 -g 10 -f 20 Before After --------------------------------- 1.808 1.603 1.847 1.251 2.229 1.590 1.952 1.600 1.947 1.257 1.925 1.627 2.694 1.620 1.258 1.621 1.919 1.632 1.250 1.240 Average: 1.8829 1.5041 Based on initial work by Steve Muckle. Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>