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Date:      Fri, 02 Dec 2016 08:18:13 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        hiren panchasara <hiren@strugglingcoder.info>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r309351 - head/etc/defaults
Message-ID:  <3180246.4fqia12Gik@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfp%2BOS%2BcePwvhMq%2BPeqnWycsBjjng287zbAefZCG690OHA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201612010435.uB14Zh21020050@repo.freebsd.org> <20161201164807.GE27291@strugglingcoder.info> <CANCZdfp%2BOS%2BcePwvhMq%2BPeqnWycsBjjng287zbAefZCG690OHA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thursday, December 01, 2016 02:41:41 PM Warner Losh wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 9:48 AM, hiren panchasara
> <hiren@strugglingcoder.info> wrote:
> > On 12/01/16 at 04:35P, Warner Losh wrote:
> >> Author: imp
> >> Date: Thu Dec  1 04:35:43 2016
> >> New Revision: 309351
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/309351
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   Revert the 'performance' setting to 'NONE' from C2.
> >
> > Just a note that this commit reverts r282110.
> 
> Yea, it's good for laptops, bad for servers. At least there's some
> Intel CPUs that this causes corruption with USB. That's being sorted
> out, but until that's done we need to fail more safe for our primary
> market.

It's also good for some servers as you need some cores in C-states
to get the maximum Turbo Boost on other cores (though that may have
been more true for earlier generations of i7 CPUs than more recent
generations).

-- 
John Baldwin



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