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From: "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
To: "'Stratos Karafotis'" <stratosk@semaphore.gr>,
	<rjw@rjwysocki.net>, <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/2] cpufreq: ondemand: Eliminate the deadband effect
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:45:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001cf9de8$43925230$cab6f690$@net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1404147574-17422-1-git-send-email-stratosk@semaphore.gr>


On 2014.07.30 10:00 Stratos Karafotis wrote:

> This patchset changes slightly the calculation of target frequency to
> eliminate the deadband effect (explained in patch 2 changelog) that it
> seems to slow down the CPU in low and medium loads.
>
> Patch 1 introduces a new relation (RELATION_C) for the next frequency
> selection, which chooses the closest frequency to target.
>
> Patch 2 is the actual change to ondemand governor.

> You may find graphs with the 'deadband' effect and benchmark results:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16kDBh5lyc6YvBnoS1hUa1t2O38z0xrWvaEj5XtJ8auw/edit#gid=2072493052

I did the same benchmark tests before (without) and after (with) this patch set on my i7-2600K system.
I added the results, which are similar to Stratos', under a new "benchmark" tab on the spreadsheet.

... Doug



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-12 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-30 16:59 [PATCH 0/2] cpufreq: ondemand: Eliminate the deadband effect Stratos Karafotis
2014-06-30 16:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: Introduce new relation for freq selection Stratos Karafotis
2014-06-30 16:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: ondemand: Eliminate the deadband effect Stratos Karafotis
2014-07-11 16:57   ` Pavel Machek
2014-07-11 17:29     ` Stratos Karafotis
2014-07-11 18:34       ` Pavel Machek
2014-07-11 19:37         ` Stratos Karafotis
2014-07-20 21:51           ` Pavel Machek
2014-07-21  5:41             ` Stratos Karafotis
2014-07-12 15:45 ` Doug Smythies [this message]
2014-07-13 16:54   ` [PATCH 0/2] " Stratos Karafotis
2014-07-22 23:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-07-23  9:01   ` Stratos Karafotis

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