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

From "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle
Date 2016-03-30 22:20 +0200
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada
<srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 11:50 -0700, Doug Smythies wrote:
>> On 2016.03.30 08:52 Jörg Otte wrote:
>> >
>> > 2016-03-30 17:33 GMT+02:00 Pandruvada, Srinivas <srinivas.pandruvad
>> > a@intel.com>:
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 13:05 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com
>> > > > >
>> >
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > 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.
>> > > > > > > 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)
>> >
>> > >
>> > > I want to reproduce this if I can. Can you give us info about
>> > > your
>> > > setup (Linux distribution, laptop model etc.)?
>> I would like to try to reproduce the issue also.
>>
>> >
>> > Distro: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
>> Note that with Ubuntu 14.04, I had issues where my CPU
>> would lock at pstate 24 (not always 24, but usually),
>> regardless of load.
>> However, it was always after an S3 suspend, occurred 100%
>> of the time, and was independent of intel_pstate or
>> acpi-cpufreq CPU frequency scaling drivers.
>>
>> Since changing my test server to Ubuntu server edition 16.04
>> (development version), I have not had those issues. While I have
>> no proof, I have assumed the issue elimination was somehow related
>> to the change to systemd.
>>
>> It might be worth observing both what the intel_pstate is asking for
>> and what the processor is actually doing.
>
> If Jörg runs with
>
> turbostat -i 1 --msr=0x199
>
> We can tell whether if we requested or the same problem you had.
> I tried on Ubuntu LTS 14.04 on same Haswell CPU model, I didn't see
> this issue.

There seems to be something odd about the Jörg's setup, or we'd have
received more reports about this issue.

Question is what that is and what really makes the difference.

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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