Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > So I guess that idle-active difference is normal for acpi-cpufreq and > that the problem only arises in or with the intel_pstate driver. I've also noticed some performance issues with intel_pstate in powersave mode, in my case playing fullscreen video was very choppy. Switching to the performance governor fixed things as well. Looking at turbostat, the cores remain close to their minimal frequency pretty much all the time in powersave. Maybe 91a4cd4f3d8169d ("intel_pstate: Remove periodic P state boost") which went in v3.14 is the culprit? (I would also be curious to know what the driver authors recommend for typical laptop usage, performance or powersave, since it defaults to performance.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html