On Wed, 2020-08-26 at 18:43 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > I am curious, somehow that patch makes a difference. > > It does make a difference, because it makes the processor spend more > time in PC2. Which very well may be because the processor cannot > enter deeper C-states.
OK, you are right, we do not indeed have PC10 in both cases. The file was wrapped and I unwrapped it incorrectly. So indeed this is the real problem to solve, and the patch does not solve it.