Hi Xi, On Sun, 2024-06-02 at 11:21 +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote: > On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 18:02 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki > > > > The global.turbo_disabled is updated quite often, especially in the > > passive mode in which case it is updated every time the scheduler > > calls > > into the driver.  However, this is generally not necessary and it > > adds > > MSR read overhead to scheduler code paths (and that particular MSR > > is > > slow to read). > > > > For this reason, make the driver read > > MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_TURBO_DISABLE > > just once at the cpufreq driver registration time and remove all of > > the > > in-flight updates of global.turbo_disabled. > > Hi Rafael and Srinivas, > > Thanks for the clean up, but unfortunately on one of my laptops > (based > on i5-11300H) MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_TURBO_DISABLE is mysteriously > changing from 1 to 0 in about one minute after system boot.  I've no > idea why this is happening (firmware is doing some stupid thing?) > > I've noticed the issue before and "hacked it around" > (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218702). But after this > change I can no longer hack it around and the system is much slower. > > Is it possible to hack it around again? > Please try the attached diff and build kernel and try. git apply update_max_freq.diff Then build kernel and install. Thanks, Srinivas