From 156d7a79ca0623ccf34dbd091a7d20d7257474f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:03:49 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] profiles: Correct CPU governor settings First, always prefer schedutil for balanced/powersave. On platforms where this governor is available, this enables Energy-Aware-Scheduling which offers the best power efficiency and performance combination. There is absolutely no reason to use another governor by default in the "balanced" profile on these systems, in particular. Second, swap around "conservative" and "ondemand". "conservative" is supposed to be lower power and higher latency. The commit that made this change tested on a single server platform (10 years ago), but unless that governor is behaving opposite to what is documented on most platforms, that was probably an outlier or a testing mistake. Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> --- profiles/balanced/tuned.conf | 2 +- profiles/powersave/tuned.conf | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/profiles/balanced/tuned.conf b/profiles/balanced/tuned.conf index feb7e5b4..0668154d 100644 --- a/profiles/balanced/tuned.conf +++ b/profiles/balanced/tuned.conf @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ cpufreq_conservative=+r [cpu] priority=10 -governor=conservative|powersave +governor=schedutil|ondemand|powersave energy_perf_bias=normal energy_performance_preference=balance_performance boost=1 diff --git a/profiles/powersave/tuned.conf b/profiles/powersave/tuned.conf index 3c352809..2cdea86e 100644 --- a/profiles/powersave/tuned.conf +++ b/profiles/powersave/tuned.conf @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ summary=Optimize for low power consumption [cpu] -governor=ondemand|powersave +governor=schedutil|conservative|powersave energy_perf_bias=powersave|power energy_performance_preference=power boost=0