On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 10:52:47PM +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote: > Introduce a new driver in virt named steal_governor. This driver > will compute the steal time and drive the policy decisions of preferred > CPU state. > > More on it can be found in the Documentation/driver-api/steal-governor.rst > > There is a new kconfig called STEAL_GOVERNOR which is introduced in > subsequent patches. That driver is going to select PREFERRED_CPU. > This makes configs driven by user preference. > When the driver is disabled, preferred CPUs is same as active CPUs. > > File layout of the driver is being kept simple. > - core.c - contains main driver code. This includes the periodic > work function and take action on steal time which is introduced > in subsequent patches. > - core.h - header file which includes data structure. > > Main structure of steal governor has, > - work: deferred periodic work function > - steal, time: To calculate the delta in periodic work. > - interval_ms, high_threshold, low_threshold: debug knobs of > steal_governor. > > While there, Add MAINTAINERS entry for this new driver. > > Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <[email protected]> > --- > Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 1 + > Documentation/driver-api/steal-governor.rst | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++ > MAINTAINERS | 9 ++ > drivers/virt/steal_governor/core.c | 48 ++++++++ > drivers/virt/steal_governor/core.h | 25 +++++
Unless I missed something, you don't use struct steal_governor out of the driver. If so, you don't need this layout. Just put everything in drivers/virt/steal_governor.c. Thanks, Yury
