intel_pstate: add sample time scaling
The PID assumes that samples are of equal time, which for a deferable timers this is not true when the system goes idle. This causes the PID to take a long time to converge to the min P state and depending on the pattern of the idle load can make the P state appear stuck. The hold-off value of three sample times before using the scaling is to give a grace period for applications that have high performance requirements and spend a lot of time idle, The poster child for this behavior is the ffmpeg benchmark in the Phoronix test suite. Cc: 3.14+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14+ Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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