On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 03:50:21PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > Several parts of the kernel are already using the effective CPU > utilization (as seen by the scheduler) to get the current load on the > CPU, do the same here instead of depending on the idle time of the CPU, > which isn't that accurate comparatively. > > Note that, this (and CPU frequency scaling in general) doesn't work that > well with idle injection as that is done from rt threads and is counted > as load while it tries to do quite the opposite. That should be solved > separately though.
Actual numbers that show the goodness would be nice ;-) Because clearly we're doing this make it better.
