Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Change default transition delay to 2ms

[Qais Yousef]

On 02/12/24 16:53, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 8:45 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 05-02-24, 02:25, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > 10ms is too high for today's hardware, even low end ones. This default
> > > end up being used a lot on Arm machines at least. Pine64, mac mini and
> > > pixel 6 all end up with 10ms rate_limit_us when using schedutil, and
> > > it's too high for all of them.
> > >
> > > Change the default to 2ms which should be 'pessimistic' enough for worst
> > > case scenario, but not too high for platforms with fast DVFS hardware.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > > index 44db4f59c4cc..8207f7294cb6 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > > @@ -582,11 +582,11 @@ unsigned int cpufreq_policy_transition_delay_us(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> > >                * for platforms where transition_latency is in milliseconds, it
> > >                * ends up giving unrealistic values.
> > >                *
> > > -              * Cap the default transition delay to 10 ms, which seems to be
> > > +              * Cap the default transition delay to 2 ms, which seems to be
> > >                * a reasonable amount of time after which we should reevaluate
> > >                * the frequency.
> > >                */
> > > -             return min(latency * LATENCY_MULTIPLIER, (unsigned int)10000);
> > > +             return min(latency * LATENCY_MULTIPLIER, (unsigned int)(2*MSEC_PER_SEC));
> >
> > Please add spaces around '*'.
> >
> > Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I've adjusted the whitespace as suggested above and applied the patch
> as 5.9 material.

Sorry I missed that remark about the white space. Thanks for the fixup!

> 
> Thanks!