Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle

From	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle
Date	2016-03-29 23:40 +0200
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On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 07:32:27 PM Jörg Otte wrote:
> 2016-03-29 19:24 GMT+02:00 Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com>:
> > in v4.5 and earlier intel-pstate downscaled idle processors (load
> > 0.1-0.2%) to minumum frequency, in my case 800MHz.
> >
> > Now in v4.6-rc1 the characteristic has dramatically changed. If in
> > idle the processor frequency is more or less a few MHz around 2500Mhz.
> > This is the maximum non turbo frequency.
> >
> > No difference between powersafe or performance governor.
> >
> > I currently use acpi_cpufreq which works as usual.
> >
> > Processor:
> > Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200M CPU @ 2.50GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x3c,
> > stepping: 0x3)
> >
> > Last known good kernel is: 4.5.0-01127-g9256d5a
> > First known bad kernel is: 4.5.0-02535-g09fd671
> >
> > There is
> > commit 277edba Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.6-rc1-1' of
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
> > in between, which brought a few changes in intel_pstate.

Can you please check commit a4675fbc4a7a (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Replace timers
with utilization update callbacks)?

Thanks,
Rafael

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Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-03-29 19:40 +0200
  Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-03-29 23:40 +0200
    Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 12:20 +0200
      Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-30 13:10 +0200
        Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 17:30 +0200
          Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-03-30 20:40 +0200
            Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 11:10 +0200
              Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-03-31 13:50 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 17:30 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-03-31 17:50 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-31 18:20 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 19:30 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-31 20:00 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-04-01 02:10 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 11:50 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-01 17:10 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-04-01 22:30 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-04-01 14:40 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 16:10 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-01 19:50 +0200
                RE: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net> - 2016-04-01 20:40 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-01 20:50 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-04-01 22:00 +0200
                RE: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net> - 2016-04-02 01:40 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-04-02 02:30 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-04-01 22:30 +0200
                RE: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net> - 2016-04-01 17:30 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 18:50 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 19:40 +0200
        Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle "Pandruvada, Srinivas" <srinivas.pandruvada@intel.com> - 2016-03-30 17:40 +0200
          Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 18:00 +0200
            Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-30 21:00 +0200
              Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-30 22:20 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-30 22:30 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 11:30 +0200
                RE: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net> - 2016-03-31 16:40 +0200
                RE: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net> - 2016-03-31 17:20 +0200
                Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high  even if in idle Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-31 17:20 +0200
                RE: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net> - 2016-04-01 09:30 +0200
            RE: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net> - 2016-03-30 21:00 +0200

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