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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 14:33:38 +0200
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Subject: Re: [regression] cross core scheduling frequency drop bisected to 0c313cb20732
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 22:59 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Friday, April 08, 2016 08:50:54 AM Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 08:45 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> >
>> > > Cute, I thought you used governor=performance for your runs?
>> >
>> > I do, and those numbers are with it thus set.
>>
>> Well, this is a trade-off.
>>
>> 4.5 introduced a power regression here so this one goes back to the previous
>> state of things.
>
> That sounds somewhat reasonable.  Too bad I don't have a super duper
> watt meter handy.. seeing that you really really are saving me money
> would perhaps make me less fond of those prettier numbers.

You can look at the turbostat Watts numbers ("turbostat --debug" and
the last three columns of the output in turbostat as included in the
kernel source).

That requires an Intel CPU with RAPL.