RE: [Update][PATCH v3 2/3] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in ->setpolicy

From: Doug Smythies
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 18:16:20 EST


Hi Rafael,

Disregard.
I see this was fixed in kernel 4.11-rc4.
While kernel 4.11-rc4 was where I thought I started from earlier,
actually I was running 4.11-rc2 at the time.

sorry for the noise.

On 2017.03.29 15:01 Doug Smythies wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, but I didn't notice until today that this
> commit causes a regression, at least in my computer.
>
> I have not figured out exactly what is wrong, as I must
> admit I am finding these policy interactions difficult
> to follow.
>
> On 2017.03.02 14:29 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> If the current P-state selection algorithm is set to "performance"
>> in intel_pstate_set_policy(), the limits may be initialized from
>
> ... [cut] ...
>
> Going back to kernel 4.11-rc1 I get this after boot**:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux s15 4.11.0-rc1-stock #217 SMP Sun Mar 5 15:34:38 PST 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux