Linux 4.8 and Skylake (Dell XPS 9550)

I’ve had a Dell XPS 9550 since around February. It’s a fantastic laptop but there definitely have been teething pains with the Skylake processor and Linux, specifically related to power management.

Today I installed Linux kernel 4.8-rc5 and got a nice surprise vs 4.7.2 which I was running.

That’s quite a bit better than observed with 4.7.2 and far, far better than 4.5.X when I first got the laptop.

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2016-09-11

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Dan Siemon

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Thomas Mohr

2016-09-15

Could you please be so kind specify your kernel options and oter power management relevant parameters ?

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1. Dan Siemon
  
  2016-09-18
  
  Fedora 24 with 4.8 kernel from the rawhide, nodebug repository.
  
  I think I had tuned running at that point using the laptop powersave profile.
  
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Linux 4.8 and Skylake (Dell XPS 9550)

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