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Subject: Re: [regression] cross core scheduling frequency drop bisected to
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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
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On Sat, 2016-04-09 at 14:33 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 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).

Hm.  I think I want my prettier numbers back.

714KHz/877KHz = 0.81
25Watt/30Watt = 0.83

	-Mike