Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 May 2010 08:21:26 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 0/8] Fix performance issue with ondemand governor |
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[Version 2 includes the acks/etc. Andrew: no changes from the patches that are in -mm]
There have been various reports of the ondemand governor causing some serious performance issues, one of the latest ones from Andrew. There are several fundamental issues with ondemand (being worked on), but the report from Andrew can be fixed relatively easily.
The fundamental issue is that ondemand will go to a (too) low CPU frequency for workloads that alternatingly disk and CPU bound...
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