This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cpufreq / intel_pstate: fix ffmpeg regression
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cpufreq-intel_pstate-fix-ffmpeg-regression.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ca182aee389f8026401510f4c63841cb02c820e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 08:20:27 -0700
Subject: cpufreq / intel_pstate: fix ffmpeg regression
From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx>
commit ca182aee389f8026401510f4c63841cb02c820e8 upstream.
The ffmpeg benchmark in the phoronix test suite has threads on
multiple cores that rely on the progress on of threads on other cores
and ping pong back and forth fast enough to make the core appear less
busy than it "should" be. If the core has been at minimum p-state for
a while bump the pstate up to kick the core to see if it is in this
ping pong state. If the core is truly idle the p-state will be
reduced at the next sample time. If the core makes more progress it
will send more work to the thread bringing both threads out of the
ping pong scenario and the p-state will be selected normally.
This fixes a performance regression of approximately 30%
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 10 ++--------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -551,22 +551,16 @@ static void intel_pstate_timer_func(unsi
struct cpudata *cpu = (struct cpudata *) __data;
intel_pstate_sample(cpu);
+ intel_pstate_adjust_busy_pstate(cpu);
- if (!cpu->idle_mode)
- intel_pstate_adjust_busy_pstate(cpu);
- else
- intel_pstate_adjust_idle_pstate(cpu);
-
-#if defined(XPERF_FIX)
if (cpu->pstate.current_pstate == cpu->pstate.min_pstate) {
cpu->min_pstate_count++;
if (!(cpu->min_pstate_count % 5)) {
intel_pstate_set_pstate(cpu, cpu->pstate.max_pstate);
- intel_pstate_idle_mode(cpu);
}
} else
cpu->min_pstate_count = 0;
-#endif
+
intel_pstate_set_sample_time(cpu);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/cpufreq-intel_pstate-use-lowest-requested-max-performance.patch
queue-3.9/cpufreq-intel_pstate-remove-idle-time-and-duration-from-sample-and-calculations.patch
queue-3.9/cpufreq-intel_pstate-fix-ffmpeg-regression.patch
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