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Date:      Fri, 2 Dec 2016 10:15:15 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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:  <CANCZdfqW=xMAWFvVsWfHkYNsMsw51kER29Gw22jYsb03KmKk9g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3180246.4fqia12Gik@ralph.baldwin.cx>
References:  <201612010435.uB14Zh21020050@repo.freebsd.org> <20161201164807.GE27291@strugglingcoder.info> <CANCZdfp%2BOS%2BcePwvhMq%2BPeqnWycsBjjng287zbAefZCG690OHA@mail.gmail.com> <3180246.4fqia12Gik@ralph.baldwin.cx>

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On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:18 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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).

Once the corruption issues are solved, we can and should put this
back. Adrian is working on that.

Warner



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