linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH 0/4] cpufreq / sched: iowait boost in intel

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Message-ID: <3823270.hR1Z92UVHK@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:   Thu, 08 Sep 2016 02:44:40 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:     Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@...aro.org>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Doug Smythies <doug.smythies@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH 0/4] cpufreq / sched: iowait boost in intel_pstate and schedutil

On Wednesday, September 07, 2016 05:35:50 PM Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 17:22 -0700, Steve Muckle wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:56:48AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > 
> > > Please let me know what you think and if you can run some
> > > benchmarks you
> > > care about and see if the changes make any difference (this way or
> > > another),
> > > please do that and let me know what you've found.
> > 
> > LGTM (I just reviewed the first and last patch, skipping the
> > intel_pstate ones).
> > 
> > I was unable to see a conclusive power regression in Android audio,
> > video or
> > idle usecases on my hikey 96board.
> Did you see any performance regression on Android workloads?

That's with schedutil and IOwait boost.  Why would performance regress?

Thanks,
Rafael