Linux 5.18 Power Management Brings Improvements For Both Intel & AMD

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.18 Power Management Brings Improvements For Both Intel & AMD

Last week the power management changes landed for the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel with a number of changes in tow, including notable items for both AMD and Intel processors...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.18-Power-Management

[aufkrawall]

Pretty sure intel_pstate=powersave will still be garbage with 5.18 (either doesn't save power on slow devices or causes stutter on fast ones). Really wished some noteworthy maintainer or Linus himself would do away with these shenanigans by making intel_pstate=passive the default setting.

[Linuxxx]

Pretty sure intel_pstate=powersave will still be garbage with 5.18 (either doesn't save power on slow devices or causes stutter on fast ones). Really wished some noteworthy maintainer or Linus himself would do away with these shenanigans by making intel_pstate=passive the default setting.

Defaulting to intel_pstate=passive is only half of the equation unfortunately, because that way schedutil becomes the new default governor, which is hardly any better than Intel's weird powersave one, both in function & name.