Re: [Xen-devel] intel_pstate driver patches by Wei Wang from 2015

["Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, December 17, 2018 9:19 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 17/12/2018 11:09, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 04:42:40PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> >> On 12/14/2018 10:16 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I wonder what happened to intel_pstate patch series[1] back in 2015?
> >>> I've seen there was some review feedback[2][3][4][5][6][7] on v6,
> >>> patches 4/6 and 6/6 were acked. Were the review comments ever
> >>> addressed (can't find it)?  Or maybe there is some other mechanism
> >>> in place for proper power management on recent Intel CPUs?
> >>> Apparently acpi-cpufreq driver not always does its job well[8].
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >>> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-10/msg0304
> >>> 8.html [2]
> >>> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-11/msg0204
> >>> 3.html [3]
> >>> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-11/msg0241
> >>> 0.html [4]
> >>> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-11/msg0243
> >>> 0.html [5]
> >>> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-11/msg0244
> >>> 3.html [6]
> >>> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-11/msg0245
> >>> 6.html [7]
> >>> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-10/msg0308
> >>> 6.html [8]
> >>> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4604#issuecomment-
> 446
> >>> 816536
> >>>
> >> Hi Marek,
> >>
> >> It was paused because there was no users in the clouds - people
> >> usually have P-state disabled.
> > I see. FWIW Xen have also non-cloud use cases, like Qubes OS.
> 
> Where has the claim about "no users in clouds use pstates" come from? I've
> got several customers who are public clouds you'd definitely recognise who
> tend to notice when pstates/turbo gets broken.

OK. We didn’t get any official requests from people to enable it,
and all the customers that we've been in touch with seems to have no interest 
in it so far.

Best,
Wei
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