From: "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
To: lists@ssl-mail.com
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Can't enable/switch to 'schedutil' governor with kernel 4.7.2 ?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:51:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002401d1fe62$6ea9d8d0$4bfd8a70$@net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472068841.1982612.705147345.1DDE879C@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On 2016.08.24 13:01 lists@ssl-mail.com wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016, at 02:23 PM, Doug Smythies wrote:
>> On 2016.08.23 09:25 lists@ssl-mail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Can't enable/switch to 'schedutil' governor
>>> I'm running
>>> uname -rm
>>> 4.7.2-1.g34ba8d6-default x86_64
>>>
>>> I'm trying to set/use the 'schedutil' governor.
>>
>> ...[cut]...
>>
>> Please try not using cpupower or any other utility.
>> Please try using the primitive commands directly.
> as a general rule?
That is up to you. Myself, I never use other utilities
or tools if I can avoid it (and this issue is a good
example as to why).
> or in this case?
Yes, in this case as a way to separate the variables.
If you use a separate tool then you don't know if the
problem is in the tool or the kernel.
> IT appears the problem's actually a kernel bug:
>
> Bug 135391 - cpupower does not change the governor anymore
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135391
No, that looks to me like a bug in the tool/utility and not
the kernel itself.
> AFAICT the fix isn't in the 4.7.X tree, just in the 4.8.X one.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-25 4:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 16:25 Can't enable/switch to 'schedutil' governor with kernel 4.7.2 ? lists
2016-08-23 21:23 ` Doug Smythies
2016-08-24 20:00 ` lists
2016-08-24 23:51 ` Doug Smythies [this message]
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