public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Increase in idle power with schedutil
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 13:40:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160519114029.GW3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0jv+fD-ZKjLBepL9Fkn1JFROO3nGHX_3-=PuzGSAALB5g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:11:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Shilpasri G Bhat
> <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > This patch adds driver callback for fast_switch and below observations
> > on schedutil governor are done with this patch.
> >
> > In POWER8 there is a regression observed with schedutil compared to
> > ondemand. With schedutil the frequency is not ramping down and is
> > mostly stuck at max frequency during idle . This is because of the
> > watchdog timer, an RT task which is fired every 4 seconds which
> > results in requesting max frequency.
> 
> Well, yes, that would be problematic.
> 

Right; we need to come up with something for RT tasks; but what happens
if you disable the watchdog? This should be entirely doable and might
give a better comparison.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-19 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-18 12:53 [RFC PATCH] Increase in idle power with schedutil Shilpasri G Bhat
2016-05-18 12:53 ` [RFC PATCH] cpufreq: powernv: Add fast_switch callback Shilpasri G Bhat
2016-05-18 21:22   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-05-18 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH] Increase in idle power with schedutil Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-05-19 11:40   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-05-19 14:30     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-05-20 12:23     ` Shilpasri G Bhat
     [not found]     ` <201605201223.u4KCNWn9028105@mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com>
2016-05-22 10:39       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-22 20:42         ` Steve Muckle
2016-05-23  9:00           ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-05-23  9:24             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-23  9:24           ` Peter Zijlstra

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20160519114029.GW3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net \
    --to=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=akshay.adiga@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-pm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org \
    --cc=rafael@kernel.org \
    --cc=rjw@rjwysocki.net \
    --cc=shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=steve.muckle@linaro.org \
    --cc=viresh.kumar@linaro.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox