Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Change default transition delay to 2ms

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Feb 05 2024 - 02:45:25 EST


On 05-02-24, 02:25, Qais Yousef wrote:
> 10ms is too high for today's hardware, even low end ones. This default
> end up being used a lot on Arm machines at least. Pine64, mac mini and
> pixel 6 all end up with 10ms rate_limit_us when using schedutil, and
> it's too high for all of them.
>
> Change the default to 2ms which should be 'pessimistic' enough for worst
> case scenario, but not too high for platforms with fast DVFS hardware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index 44db4f59c4cc..8207f7294cb6 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -582,11 +582,11 @@ unsigned int cpufreq_policy_transition_delay_us(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> * for platforms where transition_latency is in milliseconds, it
> * ends up giving unrealistic values.
> *
> - * Cap the default transition delay to 10 ms, which seems to be
> + * Cap the default transition delay to 2 ms, which seems to be
> * a reasonable amount of time after which we should reevaluate
> * the frequency.
> */
> - return min(latency * LATENCY_MULTIPLIER, (unsigned int)10000);
> + return min(latency * LATENCY_MULTIPLIER, (unsigned int)(2*MSEC_PER_SEC));

Please add spaces around '*'.

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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