Re: [RFT][Update][PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update max CPU frequency on global turbo changes

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 12:44 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 11:58:37AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > So after the Peter's patch "sched/cpufreq: Fix 32bit math overflow"
> > I will need to recompute sg_cpu->min in sugov_limits().
>
> So there's still an open question; do we want that ->min thing to depend
> on available frequencies _at_all_ ?
>
> I'm thinking it might be a good thing to have the iowait boost curve be
> independent of all that.
>
> Like said; if we set it at 128 (static), it takes 9 consequtive wake-ups
> for it to reach 1024 (max). While now the curve depends on how wide the
> gap is between min_freq and max_freq. And it seems weird to have this
> behaviour depend on that. To me at least.
>
> Now, I don't know if 128/9 is the right curve, it is just a random
> number I pulled out of a hat. But it seems to make more sense than
> depending on frequencies.

I agree.