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Message-ID: <20180516155424.GG12198@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 16 May 2018 17:54:24 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...e.de, lenb@...nel.org,
        rjw@...ysocki.net, mgorman@...hsingularity.net, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, viresh.kumar@...aro.org,
        juri.lelli@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] [PATCH 10/10] cpufreq: intel_pstate: enable boost for
 SKX

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 08:46:24AM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 09:49 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 09:49:11PM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> > > Enable HWP boost on Skylake server platform.
> > 
> > Why not unconditionally enable it on everything HWP ?
> Never noticed in any difference performance in clients with HWP nor
> anybody complained. Since clients uses single power domain, some other
> CPUs always gives boost. 

Can't the hardware tell us about per-core stuff? Do we really have to
use tables for that?

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