Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-28 Thread Sean V Kelley
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Jani Nikula jani.nik...@intel.com wrote: [just moving from lkml to intel-gfx for a better fitting audience] On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Jani Nikula jani.nik...@intel.com wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Eric Rannaud eric.rann...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Between 3.15.4

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-28 Thread Eric Rannaud
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Sean V Kelley sean.v.kel...@intel.com wrote: For what it's worth, I have a Mid-2014, Macbook Pro Retina (13inch display), running Archlinux with 3.16. Definitely, enable_fbc is a win for me and I do manually enable it. But I am still seeing what I believe to

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-28 Thread Lu, Ran
Hi, On Tuesday 26 August 2014 16:00:51, Eric Rannaud wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Daniel Vetter daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch wrote: Forcing FBC with i915.enable_fbc=1 brings the idle power consumption back to under 7W, however. This is all on 3.15.4-ARCH-00041-gf4db98240ac2. Any

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-27 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 04:00:51PM -0700, Eric Rannaud wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Daniel Vetter daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch wrote: Forcing FBC with i915.enable_fbc=1 brings the idle power consumption back to under 7W, however. This is all on 3.15.4-ARCH-00041-gf4db98240ac2. Any

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-27 Thread Eric Rannaud
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Ville Syrjälä ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com wrote: Not that I can tell. Powertop report with FBC: http://pastebin.com/5qfJKpTQ Without FBC: http://pastebin.com/NaYkR4n0 Seems to have gotten messed up somehow. I can't see the package c-state info there

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-26 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:19:49AM -0700, Eric Rannaud wrote: Hi Jani, Is there a way to restore the prior lower power consumption when idling? As I understand it, FBC should not have a direct effect on power consumption when idle, only when the FB is actively refreshed. Is it understood

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-26 Thread Eric Rannaud
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Ville Syrjälä ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com wrote: FBC works best when the screen contents don't change. The more activity on the screen the less effective FBC becomes. 4W sounds way too much for FBC however. 0.4W is closer to what one might expect from FBC

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-26 Thread Eric Rannaud
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Eric Rannaud eric.rann...@gmail.com wrote: Could the FBC commit somehow also disable RC6, or similar? I just tried these kernel arguments with no significant effect on power consumption (i.e. still around 11W in idle, instead of under 7W):

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-26 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Eric Rannaud eric.rann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Eric Rannaud eric.rann...@gmail.com wrote: Could the FBC commit somehow also disable RC6, or similar? I just tried these kernel arguments with no significant effect on power

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-26 Thread Eric Rannaud
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Daniel Vetter daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch wrote: Forcing FBC with i915.enable_fbc=1 brings the idle power consumption back to under 7W, however. This is all on 3.15.4-ARCH-00041-gf4db98240ac2. Any significant changes in package C state as reported in powertop?

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-25 Thread Jani Nikula
[just moving from lkml to intel-gfx for a better fitting audience] On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Jani Nikula jani.nik...@intel.com wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Eric Rannaud eric.rann...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Between 3.15.4 and 3.15.8, there was an increase in idle power consumption on Apple Macbook

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915: Regression: +4W in idle power use on Macbook Pro 15 (late 2013)

2014-08-25 Thread Eric Rannaud
Hi Jani, Is there a way to restore the prior lower power consumption when idling? As I understand it, FBC should not have a direct effect on power consumption when idle, only when the FB is actively refreshed. Is it understood why no FBC would have such a dramatic impact (+4W) on a system sitting