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Commit e66c1768 authored by Dirk Brandewie's avatar Dirk Brandewie Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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intel_pstate: Change busy calculation to use fixed point math.

Commit fcb6a15c (intel_pstate: Take core C0 time into account for
core busy calculation) introduced a regression on some processor SKUs
supported by intel_pstate. This was due to the truncation caused by
using integer math to calculate core busy and C0 percentages.

On a i7-4770K processor operating at 800Mhz going to 100% utilization
the percent busy of the CPU using integer math is 22%, but it actually
is 22.85%.  This value scaled to the current frequency returned 97
which the PID interpreted as no error and did not adjust the P state.

Tested on i7-4770K, i7-2600, i5-3230M.

Fixes: fcb6a15c

 (intel_pstate: Take core C0 time into account for core busy calculation)
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/19/626
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70941
Signed-off-by: default avatarDirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent cfbf8d48
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