Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: allow powersave governor as the default without expert mode
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:15:09 PM Dirk Brandewie wrote: > On 10/30/2014 02:18 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, October 16, 2014 07:37:11 AM James Geboski wrote: > >> The intel_pstate driver only supports the performance and the powersave > >> governors. With the performance governor ensuring the highest possible > >> performance settings, userspace tools fail to make any lasting changes. > >> In order to allow userspace tools to make modifications to the settings, > >> the powersave governor must be in use. This makes having the powersave > >> governor as the default convenient for systems where the intel_pstate > >> driver is being employed. Having to enable expert mode in the kernel > >> configuration is just a headache for such a trivial task. > >> > >> This patch applies to all kernel versions 2.6.38 or greater after the > >> migration from CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT (6a108a14fa35). Most > >> importantly, this applies to kernel versions 3.9 or greater when the > >> intel_pstate driver was introduced. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: James Geboski > >> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar > > > > Dirk, any objections? > > No objection. OK, patch queued up for 3.19-rc1, thanks! -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: allow powersave governor as the default without expert mode
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:15:09 PM Dirk Brandewie wrote: On 10/30/2014 02:18 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, October 16, 2014 07:37:11 AM James Geboski wrote: The intel_pstate driver only supports the performance and the powersave governors. With the performance governor ensuring the highest possible performance settings, userspace tools fail to make any lasting changes. In order to allow userspace tools to make modifications to the settings, the powersave governor must be in use. This makes having the powersave governor as the default convenient for systems where the intel_pstate driver is being employed. Having to enable expert mode in the kernel configuration is just a headache for such a trivial task. This patch applies to all kernel versions 2.6.38 or greater after the migration from CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT (6a108a14fa35). Most importantly, this applies to kernel versions 3.9 or greater when the intel_pstate driver was introduced. Signed-off-by: James Geboski jgebo...@gmail.com Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.ku...@linaro.org Dirk, any objections? No objection. OK, patch queued up for 3.19-rc1, thanks! -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: allow powersave governor as the default without expert mode
On 10/30/2014 02:18 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, October 16, 2014 07:37:11 AM James Geboski wrote: The intel_pstate driver only supports the performance and the powersave governors. With the performance governor ensuring the highest possible performance settings, userspace tools fail to make any lasting changes. In order to allow userspace tools to make modifications to the settings, the powersave governor must be in use. This makes having the powersave governor as the default convenient for systems where the intel_pstate driver is being employed. Having to enable expert mode in the kernel configuration is just a headache for such a trivial task. This patch applies to all kernel versions 2.6.38 or greater after the migration from CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT (6a108a14fa35). Most importantly, this applies to kernel versions 3.9 or greater when the intel_pstate driver was introduced. Signed-off-by: James Geboski Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Dirk, any objections? No objection. --- ChangeLog v2: - Acked-by: Viresh Kumar --- drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig index 3489f8f..73df7db 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE bool "powersave" - depends on EXPERT select CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE help Use the CPUFreq governor 'powersave' as default. This sets -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: allow powersave governor as the default without expert mode
On 10/30/2014 02:18 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, October 16, 2014 07:37:11 AM James Geboski wrote: The intel_pstate driver only supports the performance and the powersave governors. With the performance governor ensuring the highest possible performance settings, userspace tools fail to make any lasting changes. In order to allow userspace tools to make modifications to the settings, the powersave governor must be in use. This makes having the powersave governor as the default convenient for systems where the intel_pstate driver is being employed. Having to enable expert mode in the kernel configuration is just a headache for such a trivial task. This patch applies to all kernel versions 2.6.38 or greater after the migration from CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT (6a108a14fa35). Most importantly, this applies to kernel versions 3.9 or greater when the intel_pstate driver was introduced. Signed-off-by: James Geboski jgebo...@gmail.com Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.ku...@linaro.org Dirk, any objections? No objection. --- ChangeLog v2: - Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.ku...@linaro.org --- drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig index 3489f8f..73df7db 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE bool powersave - depends on EXPERT select CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE help Use the CPUFreq governor 'powersave' as default. This sets -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: allow powersave governor as the default without expert mode
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 07:37:11 AM James Geboski wrote: > The intel_pstate driver only supports the performance and the powersave > governors. With the performance governor ensuring the highest possible > performance settings, userspace tools fail to make any lasting changes. > In order to allow userspace tools to make modifications to the settings, > the powersave governor must be in use. This makes having the powersave > governor as the default convenient for systems where the intel_pstate > driver is being employed. Having to enable expert mode in the kernel > configuration is just a headache for such a trivial task. > > This patch applies to all kernel versions 2.6.38 or greater after the > migration from CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT (6a108a14fa35). Most > importantly, this applies to kernel versions 3.9 or greater when the > intel_pstate driver was introduced. > > Signed-off-by: James Geboski > Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Dirk, any objections? > --- > ChangeLog v2: > - Acked-by: Viresh Kumar > --- > drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig > index 3489f8f..73df7db 100644 > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig > @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE > > config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE > bool "powersave" > - depends on EXPERT > select CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE > help > Use the CPUFreq governor 'powersave' as default. This sets > -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: allow powersave governor as the default without expert mode
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 07:37:11 AM James Geboski wrote: The intel_pstate driver only supports the performance and the powersave governors. With the performance governor ensuring the highest possible performance settings, userspace tools fail to make any lasting changes. In order to allow userspace tools to make modifications to the settings, the powersave governor must be in use. This makes having the powersave governor as the default convenient for systems where the intel_pstate driver is being employed. Having to enable expert mode in the kernel configuration is just a headache for such a trivial task. This patch applies to all kernel versions 2.6.38 or greater after the migration from CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT (6a108a14fa35). Most importantly, this applies to kernel versions 3.9 or greater when the intel_pstate driver was introduced. Signed-off-by: James Geboski jgebo...@gmail.com Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.ku...@linaro.org Dirk, any objections? --- ChangeLog v2: - Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.ku...@linaro.org --- drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig index 3489f8f..73df7db 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE bool powersave - depends on EXPERT select CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE help Use the CPUFreq governor 'powersave' as default. This sets -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[PATCH v2] cpufreq: allow powersave governor as the default without expert mode
The intel_pstate driver only supports the performance and the powersave governors. With the performance governor ensuring the highest possible performance settings, userspace tools fail to make any lasting changes. In order to allow userspace tools to make modifications to the settings, the powersave governor must be in use. This makes having the powersave governor as the default convenient for systems where the intel_pstate driver is being employed. Having to enable expert mode in the kernel configuration is just a headache for such a trivial task. This patch applies to all kernel versions 2.6.38 or greater after the migration from CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT (6a108a14fa35). Most importantly, this applies to kernel versions 3.9 or greater when the intel_pstate driver was introduced. Signed-off-by: James Geboski Acked-by: Viresh Kumar --- ChangeLog v2: - Acked-by: Viresh Kumar --- drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig index 3489f8f..73df7db 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE bool "powersave" - depends on EXPERT select CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE help Use the CPUFreq governor 'powersave' as default. This sets -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[PATCH v2] cpufreq: allow powersave governor as the default without expert mode
The intel_pstate driver only supports the performance and the powersave governors. With the performance governor ensuring the highest possible performance settings, userspace tools fail to make any lasting changes. In order to allow userspace tools to make modifications to the settings, the powersave governor must be in use. This makes having the powersave governor as the default convenient for systems where the intel_pstate driver is being employed. Having to enable expert mode in the kernel configuration is just a headache for such a trivial task. This patch applies to all kernel versions 2.6.38 or greater after the migration from CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT (6a108a14fa35). Most importantly, this applies to kernel versions 3.9 or greater when the intel_pstate driver was introduced. Signed-off-by: James Geboski jgebo...@gmail.com Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.ku...@linaro.org --- ChangeLog v2: - Acked-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.ku...@linaro.org --- drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig index 3489f8f..73df7db 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE bool powersave - depends on EXPERT select CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE help Use the CPUFreq governor 'powersave' as default. This sets -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
