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[Chris Ng <facboy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I upgraded an install of 14.0.4.3 to the LST Enablement Stack for Vivid
(kernel 3.19) that is running on a Xeon E5-1630 V3 (a Haswell Quad-Core)
.  Booting with 3.19 would result in the system being very sluggish.
'cpupower frequency-info' would report that the CPU was running at
around 400mhz, as would 'cat
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq'.  The CPUs would
remain around 400mhz regardless of load.

This was using the intel_pstate driver and the powersave governor.
Switching to the performance governor had no effect.  Using the acpi-
cpufreq driver also had no effect, the system was still sluggish even
though the reported frequencies in /sys/devices/.

Eventually I tracked it down to the original install having had the
intel_microcode package installed at some point.  Once I removed this
then the CPU frequencies scaled correctly with load.  FYI the particular
version installed was intel-microcode/trusty-updates,now
2.20140624-t-1ubuntu2 amd64.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-3.19.0-30-generic 3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt6
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 14 12:38:05 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-05 (434 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
SourcePackage: linux-lts-vivid
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: linux-lts-vivid (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug third-party-packages trusty

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Title:
  intel cpu frequency is stuck at ~400mhz

Status in linux-lts-vivid package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I upgraded an install of 14.0.4.3 to the LST Enablement Stack for
  Vivid (kernel 3.19) that is running on a Xeon E5-1630 V3 (a Haswell
  Quad-Core) .  Booting with 3.19 would result in the system being very
  sluggish.  'cpupower frequency-info' would report that the CPU was
  running at around 400mhz, as would 'cat
  /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq'.  The CPUs
  would remain around 400mhz regardless of load.

  This was using the intel_pstate driver and the powersave governor.
  Switching to the performance governor had no effect.  Using the acpi-
  cpufreq driver also had no effect, the system was still sluggish even
  though the reported frequencies in /sys/devices/.

  Eventually I tracked it down to the original install having had the
  intel_microcode package installed at some point.  Once I removed this
  then the CPU frequencies scaled correctly with load.  FYI the
  particular version installed was intel-microcode/trusty-updates,now
  2.20140624-t-1ubuntu2 amd64.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: linux-image-3.19.0-30-generic 3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt6
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-30-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct 14 12:38:05 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-05 (434 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
  SourcePackage: linux-lts-vivid
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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