Re: Performance regression in v3.14

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 09:59:45AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> [ +CC: Greg, Doug, Stratos, Yuyang ]
> 
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:00:51AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:10:49AM -0700, Dirk Brandewie wrote:
> > > On 05/06/2014 10:40 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > > Cc'ing Dirk who is taking care of intel-pstate driver.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Thanks Viresh I had seen this thread.
> > > 
> > > I am looking into it
> > 
> > Any updates on this, Dirk? 3.14 is still basically unusable with the
> > intel_pstate driver.
> > 
> > Any fixes or workarounds posted elsewhere that I can apply in the
> > meantime?
> 
> Another week and still no reply, Dirk?
> 
> I tried applying your (rejected) patch "intel_pstate: Remove C0
> tracking" posted here:
> 
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/8/574
> 
> to v3.14.4 and it fixes the problem as expected.
> 
> So we have a commit fcb6a15c2e7e ("intel_pstate: Take core C0 time into
> account for core busy calculation") that went into v3.14-rc2 (and was
> even marked for *stable*) that first broke Greg KH's system:
> 
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/19/626
> 
> That was apparently fixed by e66c17683746 ("intel_pstate: Change
> busy calculation to use fixed point math."), but still left v3.14
> basically unusable for lower-intensity workloads such as my
> bash-completion example and other reported regressions:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75121
> 
> Sure there may be issues with v3.13 not hitting the lowest frequencies
> but at least the system was *usable*.
> 
> In my opinion there's really no other option than to restore the 3.13
> behaviour by effectively reverting fcb6a15c2e7e ("intel_pstate: Take
> core C0 time into account for core busy calculation") until you have
> figured out a way to take C0 into account without breaking things too
> badly.

Dirk has posted some patches, do they fix the problem for you?

thanks,

greg k-h