From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v5.8+ powersave governor breakage?
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:02:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2454708.LCoKzY5ALV@kreacher> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76661fbdbd31368c0a06cd58296f5ec12817e33c.camel@gmx.de>
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:08:30 PM CET Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 15:31 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, November 2, 2020 7:18:41 AM CET Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > > Desktop box did, it gained a working ondemand, while its previously
> > > working powersave went broke.
> >
> > Most likely that's because it was handled by intel_pstate in the "active" mode
> > previously, while it is now handled by it in the "passive" mode...
>
> Perhaps the user interface should then nak switching to powersave as it
> used to nak switching to ondemand?
It cannot do that if the powersave governor is configured in.
[Essentially, the problem is that the "powersave" thing advertised by
intel_pstate in the "active" mode is not really the powersave governor,
but that is a mistake made in the past and cannot be undone. Sorry about
that.]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-05 18:03 UTC|newest]
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2020-11-05 14:31 ` v5.8+ powersave governor breakage? Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-05 15:08 ` Mike Galbraith
2020-11-05 18:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2020-11-06 1:36 ` Mike Galbraith
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