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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-10-25 20:00:50 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-10-25 20:00:50 +0200
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parentMerge tag 'pci-v6.12-fixes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/gi... (diff)
parentMerge branch 'pm-powercap' (diff)
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Merge tag 'pm-6.12-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki: "Update cpufreq documentation to match the code after recent changes (Christian Loehle), fix a units conversion issue in the CPPC cpufreq driver (liwei), and fix an error check in the dtpm_devfreq power capping driver (Yuan Can)" * tag 'pm-6.12-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: cpufreq: CPPC: fix perf_to_khz/khz_to_perf conversion exception powercap: dtpm_devfreq: Fix error check against dev_pm_qos_add_request() cpufreq: docs: Reflect latency changes in docs
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@@ -425,8 +425,8 @@ This governor exposes only one tunable:
``rate_limit_us``
Minimum time (in microseconds) that has to pass between two consecutive
- runs of governor computations (default: 1000 times the scaling driver's
- transition latency).
+ runs of governor computations (default: 1.5 times the scaling driver's
+ transition latency or the maximum 2ms).
The purpose of this tunable is to reduce the scheduler context overhead
of the governor which might be excessive without it.
@@ -474,17 +474,17 @@ This governor exposes the following tunables:
This is how often the governor's worker routine should run, in
microseconds.
- Typically, it is set to values of the order of 10000 (10 ms). Its
- default value is equal to the value of ``cpuinfo_transition_latency``
- for each policy this governor is attached to (but since the unit here
- is greater by 1000, this means that the time represented by
- ``sampling_rate`` is 1000 times greater than the transition latency by
- default).
+ Typically, it is set to values of the order of 2000 (2 ms). Its
+ default value is to add a 50% breathing room
+ to ``cpuinfo_transition_latency`` on each policy this governor is
+ attached to. The minimum is typically the length of two scheduler
+ ticks.
If this tunable is per-policy, the following shell command sets the time
- represented by it to be 750 times as high as the transition latency::
+ represented by it to be 1.5 times as high as the transition latency
+ (the default)::
- # echo `$(($(cat cpuinfo_transition_latency) * 750 / 1000)) > ondemand/sampling_rate
+ # echo `$(($(cat cpuinfo_transition_latency) * 3 / 2)) > ondemand/sampling_rate
``up_threshold``
If the estimated CPU load is above this value (in percent), the governor