linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.10-rc1

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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:27:08 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	intel-gfx <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.10-rc1

Hi!

> > Let's bring in the actual gpu people.. Dave/Jani/others - does any of
> > this sound familiar? Pavel says things have gotten much slower in
> > 6.10: "something was very wrong with the performance, likely to do
> > with graphics"
> 
> Actually, maybe it's not graphics at all. Rafael just sent me a pull
> request that fixes a "turbo is disabled at boot, but magically enabled
> at runtime by firmware" issue.
> 
> The 6.10-rc1 kernel would notice that turbo was disabled, and stopped
> noticing that it magically got re-enabled.
> 
> Pavel, that was with a very different laptop, but who knows... That
> would match the "laptop is much slower" thing.
> 
> So current -git might be worth checking.

So... I went to (then) current -git and I don't want to replace my
machine any more. So the problem should not exist in current mainline.

(I did not have good objective data, so I'm not 100% sure problem was
real in the first place. More like 90% sure.)

Best regards,
								Pavel
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