linux-kernel - Re: v5.8+ powersave governor breakage?

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Message-ID: <76661fbdbd31368c0a06cd58296f5ec12817e33c.camel@gmx.de>
Date:   Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:08:30 +0100
From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v5.8+ powersave governor breakage?

On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 15:31 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, November 2, 2020 7:18:41 AM CET Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > Desktop box did, it gained a working ondemand, while its previously
> > working powersave went broke.
>
> Most likely that's because it was handled by intel_pstate in the "active" mode
> previously, while it is now handled by it in the "passive" mode...

Perhaps the user interface should then nak switching to powersave as it
used to nak switching to ondemand?

	-Mike