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Commit c4ee841f authored by Dirk Brandewie's avatar Dirk Brandewie Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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intel_pstate: add sample time scaling



The PID assumes that samples are of equal time, which for a deferable
timers this is not true when the system goes idle.  This causes the
PID to take a long time to converge to the min P state and depending
on the pattern of the idle load can make the P state appear stuck.

The hold-off value of three sample times before using the scaling is
to give a grace period for applications that have high performance
requirements and spend a lot of time idle,  The poster child for this
behavior is the ffmpeg benchmark in the Phoronix test suite.

Cc: 3.14+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: default avatarDirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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