Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:01:02 -0800
From: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org,
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        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com>,
        Robin Randhawa <robin.randhawa@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] cpufreq: schedutil: move slow path from workqueue
 to SCHED_FIFO task
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Hi Viresh,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 01:53:19PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> This work was started by Steve Muckle, where he used a simple kthread
> instead of kthread-worker and that wasn't sufficient as some guarantees
> weren't met.

I know this has already gone in, but can you expand on the unmet
guarantees mentioned here just for my own (and perhaps others')
understanding?

thanks,
Steve