Re: cpufreq: intel_pstate: map utilization into the pstate range

[Julia Lawall]

> > All the turbostat output and graphs I have sent recently were just
> > for
> > continuous spinning:
> >
> > for(;;);
> >
> > Now I am trying running for the percentage of the time corresponding
> > to
> > 10 / P for pstate P (ie 0.5 of the time for pstate 20), and then
> > sleeping,
> > to see whether one can just add the sleeping power consumption of the
> > machine to compute the efficiency as Rafael suggested.
> >
> Before doing comparison try freezing uncore.
>
> wrmsr -a 0x620 0x0808
>
> to Freeze uncore at 800MHz. Any other value is fine.

Thanks for the suggestion.  What is the impact of this?

julia