Re: stable 6.6: commit "sched/cpufreq: Rework schedutil governor performance estimation' causes a regression

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (25/11/21 12:55), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> On (25/11/20 10:15), Christian Loehle wrote:
> > On 11/20/25 04:45, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We are observing a performance regression on one of our arm64 boards.
> > > We tracked it down to the linux-6.6.y commit ada8d7fa0ad4 ("sched/cpufreq:
> > > Rework schedutil governor performance estimation").
> > > 
> > > UI speedometer benchmark:
> > > w/commit:	395  +/-38
> > > w/o commit:	439  +/-14
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Sergey,
> > Would be nice to get some details. What board?
> 
> It's an MT8196 chromebook.
> 
> > What do the OPPs look like?
> 
> How do I find that out?
> 
> > Does this system use uclamp during the benchmark? How?
> 
> How do I find that out?
> 
> > Given how large the stddev given by speedometer (version 3?) itself is, can we get the
> > stats of a few runs?
> 
> v2.1
> 
> w/o patch     w/ patch
> 440 +/-30     406 +/-11
> 440 +/-14     413 +/-16
> 444 +/-12     403 +/-14
> 442 +/-12     412 +/-15
> 
> > Maybe traces of cpu_frequency for both w/ and w/o?
> 
> trace-cmd record -e power:cpu_frequency attached.
> 
> "base" is with ada8d7fa0ad4
> "revert" is ada8d7fa0ad4 reverted.

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