On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 01:30:01PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Many people use intel_pstate in the active mode with HWP enabled too.
We now have HWP-passive supported, afaict. So we should discourage that. That is; I'll care less and less about people not using schedutil as time goes on. > Arguably, that doesn't need to compute the effective utilization, so I > guess it is not relevant for the discussion here, but it is not > negligible in general. Why not? cpufreq-cooling should still be able to throttle the system by setting HWP.Highest_Performance no? In which case it still needs an energy estimate.
