[Bug 1885730] Re: Bring back ondemand.service or switch kernel default governor for pstate - pstate now defaults to performance governor

2020-08-03 Thread Balint Reczey
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Focal) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1885730] Re: Bring back ondemand.service or switch kernel default governor for pstate - pstate now defaults to performance governor

2020-08-03 Thread Matthieu Baerts
Hello! Regarding the comment #8, I didn't get the same positive experience on my side. It was more closer to what is described in comment #9. See bug 1889479 for more details. I would suggest switching back to powersave/ondemand either with a new service or the kernel config. Having a dedicated

[Bug 1885730] Re: Bring back ondemand.service or switch kernel default governor for pstate - pstate now defaults to performance governor

2020-08-03 Thread Balint Reczey
I've added the OEM Solutions Group team for awareness. I'm not sure what the final fix will be since servers' and desktops'/laptops' ideal default seem to be different, but most likely the certification tests should be adjusted if we don't end up restoring the previous behaviour of the

[Bug 1885730] Re: Bring back ondemand.service or switch kernel default governor for pstate - pstate now defaults to performance governor

2020-08-03 Thread Dan Streetman
> In benchmarking we didn't observe much computational difference between the too once the CPU is fully loaded. However, cranking up or cranking down the load one will discover that the performance setting is more responsive than powersave. this is exactly the problem in production environments;

[Bug 1885730] Re: Bring back ondemand.service or switch kernel default governor for pstate - pstate now defaults to performance governor

2020-08-03 Thread Dan Streetman
> I would suggest switching back to powersave/ondemand either with a new service or the kernel config. re: new service, the existing package cpufrequtils (and related package cpufreqd) provides a configurable service to manage governor settings (and other related settings). The old ondemand