Intel Has More P-State Changes Coming For Linux 4.12

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Has More P-State Changes Coming For Linux 4.12

Tuning the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for the Linux kernel feels like a never-ending process. While it's been around for years and continues to be refined, for some Intel CPUs on some workloads, the CPUFreq scaling driver leads to be petter performance and even Intel's own Clear Linux distribution is using CPUFreq by default. With Linux 4.12, more intel_pstate revisions are taking place...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=P-State-Changes-Linux-4.12

[tildearrow]

Typos:

the CPUFreq scaling driver leads to be petter performance

The patches affect the P-State active mode (default) behavioras it's turned out

[Michael]

Typos:

Argh, headache interfering today it seems. Thanks!

[davidbepo]

the first paragraph is absolute trueness
sadly

[cj.wijtmans]

does p-state still work if you build your kernel without cpufreq?