On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: > On 2016.06.17 08:32 Jisheng Zhang wrote: > >> Second, sorry again for report incorrect commit, >> I were too tired this morning so I remember the wrong commit. >> The regression is caused by bb6ab52f2bef ("intel_pstate: Do not >> set utilization update hook too early"), so I update the email title. > > Summary: > > Isn't running powertop itself a significant contributor here?
It shouldn't be, because the overhead in question comes from ->setpolicy and powertop itself should not cause it to be invoked that often. Thanks, Rafael