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

From: Srinivas Pandruvada
Date: Sat Apr 02 2016 - 11:32:01 EST



On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 08:30 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > I am trying CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y from
> > linux-pm.git#linux-next out of curiosity...
> >
> > $ ./scripts/diffconfig /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
> > ÂCPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE y -> n
> > +CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_SCHEDUTIL y
> > +CPU_FREQ_GOV_ATTR_SET y
> > +CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL y
> >
> > ...will report.
> >
>
> Not sure why I see here "powersave".
> Does Intel-PState driver not support CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL?
>
> $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_driver
> intel_pstate
> intel_pstate
> intel_pstate
> intel_pstate
>
> $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> powersave
> powersave
> powersave
> powersave

If you are using Ubuntu, the OS has a script which will automatically
change from performance.
Doug can give more information on this script.

Thanks,
Srinivas



>
> See also attached files.
>
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