Re: [PATCH 0/7] Fix performance issue with ondemand governor

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Mon Apr 26 2010 - 17:45:53 EST


On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 05:41:56PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:59:49AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > There have been various reports of the ondemand governor causing some
> > serious performance issues, one of the latest ones from Andrew.
> > There are several fundamental issues with ondemand (being worked on),
> > but the report from Andrew can be fixed relatively easily.
> >
> > The fundamental issue is that ondemand will go to a (too) low CPU
> > frequency for workloads that alternatingly disk and CPU bound...
>
> given the scheduler changes, these probably make more sense to go
> via one of Ingo's trees ?
> If everyone agrees, feel free to add my Signed-off-by:

What about the issue Pavel reported and Willy confirmed (regression
on older hardware)?

Best,
Dominik
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