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Srinivas Pandruvada 01e61a42a5 cpufreq: intel_pstate: Limit the scope of HWP dynamic boost platforms
Dynamic boosting of HWP performance on IO wake showed significant
improvement to IO workloads. This series was intended for Skylake Xeon
platforms only and feature was enabled by default based on CPU model
number.

But some Xeon platforms reused the Skylake desktop CPU model number. This
caused some undesirable side effects to some graphics workloads. Since
they are heavily IO bound, the increase in CPU performance decreased the
power available for GPU to do its computing and hence decrease in graphics
benchmark performance.

For example on a Skylake desktop, GpuTest benchmark showed average FPS
reduction from 529 to 506.

This change makes sure that HWP boost feature is only enabled for Skylake
server platforms by using ACPI FADT preferred PM Profile. If some desktop
users wants to get benefit of boost, they can still enable boost from
intel_pstate sysfs attribute "hwp_dynamic_boost".

Fixes: 41ab43c9c8 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: enable boost for Skylake Xeon)
Link: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107410
Reported-by: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-07-31 10:39:58 +02:00
arch One more fix for 4.18: 2018-07-28 12:32:28 -07:00
block for-linus-20180727 2018-07-27 12:51:00 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-07-19 07:32:44 -07:00
Documentation USB fixes for 4.18-rc7 2018-07-26 09:29:29 -07:00
drivers cpufreq: intel_pstate: Limit the scope of HWP dynamic boost platforms 2018-07-31 10:39:58 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Some miscellaneous ext4 fixes for 4.18; one fix is for a regression 2018-07-29 13:13:45 -07:00
include for-linus-20180727 2018-07-27 12:51:00 -07:00
init Kbuild fixes for v4.18 2018-06-30 13:05:30 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: prevent queue.status tearing in semop 2018-07-26 19:38:03 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-07-27 10:30:47 -07:00
lib kasan: only select SLUB_DEBUG with SYSFS=y 2018-07-26 19:38:03 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm zswap: re-check zswap_is_full() after do zswap_shrink() 2018-07-26 19:38:03 -07:00
net ip: in cmsg IP(V6)_ORIGDSTADDR call pskb_may_pull 2018-07-24 16:35:58 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-07-18 19:32:54 -07:00
scripts Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-07-18 19:32:54 -07:00
security selinux/stable-4.18 PR 20180629 2018-06-30 11:15:12 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Yet another Clevo P950 quirk entry 2018-07-18 12:17:46 +02:00
tools Various fixes to the tracing infrastructure: 2018-07-27 09:50:33 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt Miscellaneous bugfixes, plus a small patchlet related to Spectre v2. 2018-07-18 11:08:44 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2018-07-27 09:53:45 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc7 2018-07-29 14:44:52 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.