On 23-07-19, 00:10, Doug Smythies wrote:
On 2019.07.21 23:52 Viresh Kumar wrote:
To avoid reducing the frequency of a CPU prematurely, we skip reducing the frequency if the CPU had been busy recently.
This should not be done when the limits of the policy are changed, for example due to thermal throttling. We should always get the frequency within limits as soon as possible.
Fixes: ecd288429126 ("cpufreq: schedutil: Don't set next_freq to UINT_MAX") Cc: v4.18+ stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+ Reported-by: Doug Smythies doug.smythies@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org
@Doug: Please try this patch, it must fix the issue you reported.
It fixes the driver = acpi-cpufreq ; governor = schedutil test case It does not fix the driver = intel_cpufreq ; governor = schedutil test case
I have checked my results twice, but will check again in the day or two.
The patch you tried to revert wasn't doing any driver specific stuff but only schedutil. If that revert fixes your issue with both the drivers, then this patch should do it as well.
I am clueless now on what can go wrong with intel_cpufreq driver with schedutil now.
Though there is one difference between intel_cpufreq and acpi_cpufreq, intel_cpufreq has fast_switch_possible=true and so it uses slightly different path in schedutil. I tried to look from that perspective as well but couldn't find anything wrong.
If you still find intel_cpufreq to be broken, even with this patch, please set fast_switch_possible=false instead of true in __intel_pstate_cpu_init() and try tests again. That shall make it very much similar to acpi-cpufreq driver.