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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH 0/4] cpufreq / sched: iowait boost in intel_pstate and schedutil
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 03:15:49 +0200
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To: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
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On Wednesday, September 07, 2016 05:49:31 PM Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 02:44 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wednesday, September 07, 2016 05:35:50 PM Srinivas Pandruvada
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 17:22 -0700, Steve Muckle wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:56:48AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Please let me know what you think and if you can run some
> > > > > benchmarks you
> > > > > care about and see if the changes make any difference (this way
> > > > > or
> > > > > another),
> > > > > please do that and let me know what you've found.
> > > > 
> > > > LGTM (I just reviewed the first and last patch, skipping the
> > > > intel_pstate ones).
> > > > 
> > > > I was unable to see a conclusive power regression in Android
> > > > audio,
> > > > video or
> > > > idle usecases on my hikey 96board.
> > > Did you see any performance regression on Android workloads?
> > 
> > That's with schedutil and IOwait boost.  Why would performance
> > regress?
> Some Android tests reach thermal limits and aggressive throttling
> causes performance issues. 

I see, OK.

Thanks,
Rafael