On 12-05-16, 14:10, Steve Muckle wrote:
By far the biggest user of interactive is Android (I'm not aware of its use elsewhere). Persuading Google to switch is relatively doable once a viable alternative exists. After that point I'd expect the desire to merge and maintain interactive would almost immediately disappear. Folks wanting to run upstream kernels on already released devices have much bigger hurdles than merging the interactive governor.
But if interactive is merged I'm worried that many other users on random platforms will adopt it, for whatever reason, introducing a support burden during a time that we're trying to develop and encourage an alternative.
Lets assume that its going to take enough time for (specially) Android to start using the schedutil governor. That's how it works.
So, if we are worried about new users using it (who may not have a good reason to do that but did it by mistake), maybe we can make the interactive governor depend on CONFIG_ARM.
Anyway that's just my $.02 - it'd actually be good for me as again it'd permit easier comparison with schedutil, so I won't complain if it goes in :) .