Re: [cpufreq] 909c0e9cc1: fwq.fwq.med 210.0% improvement

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On 3/5/2020 2:35 AM, kernel test robot wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> FYI, we noticed a 210.0% improvement of fwq.fwq.med due to commit:

Well, that sounds impressive. :-)


> commit: 909c0e9cc11ba39fa5a660583b25c2431cf54deb ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use passive mode by default without HWP")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git intel_pstate-passive
>
> in testcase: fwq
> on test machine: 16 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz with 48G memory
> with following parameters:
>
> 	nr_task: 100%
> 	samples: 100000ss
> 	iterations: 18x
> 	cpufreq_governor: powersave

The governor should be schedutil, though, unless it is explicitly set to 
powersave in the test environment.

Is that the case?