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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 14:31 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 10:59:59PM +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.
> > 
> > Just for my elucidation; how can gov=performance have a 'power'
> > regression?
> 
> Because of what is used as the "default" idle state most of the time.
> 
> C1 was used before 4.5 and that changed to polling in 4.5.

Should the default idle state not then be governor dependent?  When I
set gov=performance, I'm expecting box to go just as fast as it can go
without melting.  Does polling risk CPU -> lava conversion?

	-Mike