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, 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 <[email protected]>
redhat-performance · Jan 20, 2025 · c6eff35 · c6eff35
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diff --git 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
@@ -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