[PATCH v2 0/2] Make iowait_boost optional and default to policy

2017-05-19 Thread Joel Fernandes
iowait_boost is causing power regression on our arm64 SoC. Really going to max frequency is bad for power on mobile devices and not wise. These patches make it optional and default to what the policy suggests coming from the cpufreq driver as input to the governor. Here are some power numbers

[PATCH v2 0/2] Make iowait_boost optional and default to policy

2017-05-19 Thread Joel Fernandes
iowait_boost is causing power regression on our arm64 SoC. Really going to max frequency is bad for power on mobile devices and not wise. These patches make it optional and default to what the policy suggests coming from the cpufreq driver as input to the governor. Here are some power numbers