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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
In the active mode intel_pstate currently uses two sets of global limits, each associated with one of the possible scaling_governor settings in that mode: "powersave" or "performance". The driver switches over from one of those sets to the other depending on the scaling_governor setting for the last CPU whose per-policy cpufreq interface in sysfs was last used to change parameters exposed in there. That obviously leads to no end of issues when the scaling_governor settings differ between CPUs. The most recent issue was introduced by commit a240c4aa (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in ->setpolicy) that eliminated the reinitialization of "performance" limits in intel_pstate_set_policy() preventing the max limit from being set to anything below 100, among other things. Namely, an undesirable side effect of commit a240c4aa is that now, after setting scaling_governor to "performance" in the active mode, the per-policy limits for the CPU in question go to the highest level and stay there even when it is switched back to "powersave" later. As it turns out, some distributions set scaling_governor to "performance" temporarily for all CPUs to speed-up system initialization, so that change causes them to misbehave later. To fix that, get rid of the performance/powersave global limits split and use just one set of global limits for everything. From the user's persepctive, after this modification, when scaling_governor is switched from "performance" to "powersave" or the other way around on one CPU, the limits settings (ie. the global max/min_perf_pct and per-policy scaling_max/min_freq for any CPUs) will not change. Still, switching from "performance" to "powersave" or the other way around changes the way in which P-states are selected and in particular "performance" causes the driver to always request the highest P-state it is allowed to ask for for the given CPU. Fixes: a240c4aa (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in ->setpolicy) Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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