On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:06:29AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Herrmann <aherrm...@suse.com> wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > On balance before this commit users could use pcc-cpufreq but had > > already suboptimal performance (compared to say intel_pstate driver > > which can be used changing BIOS options). > > BTW, I wonder why you need to change the BIOS options for intel_pstate to > load.
I think this is because of (in intel_pstate_init()): /* * The Intel pstate driver will be ignored if the platform * firmware has its own power management modes. */ if (intel_pstate_platform_pwr_mgmt_exists()) return -ENODEV; > It should be initialized before pcc-cpufreq (according to their > respective initcall levels), so in theory intel_pstate should be used > by default on the affected systems anyway. > What BIOS settings need to be changed for that? Already answered in other mail. Andreas