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Message #19079
[Bug 1233479] Re: ondemand cpufreq governor does not scale CPU freq on Sandybridge
All active cores share the same frequency. This is one of the misleading
things about the acpi-cpufreq driver, it tends to show target
frequencies not actual frequencies.
See also the "Intel 2nd gen core desktop vol 1 datasheet" - Chapter 4
Power Management - Section 4.2 Processor Core Power Management - Sub-
section 1 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology - Bullet point 2 - 3rd
sub-list entry (page 46 of the html or pdf):
"All active processor cores share the same frequency and voltage. In a
multicore processor, the highest frequency P-state requested amongst all
active cores is selected. "
ref: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/2nd-gen-
core-desktop-vol-1-datasheet.html
I do not know if anything was patched for Ubuntu's 3.11 kernel. I tested
many, but not all, of the 3.11RC series, both Ubuntu and from
kernel.org, but I was mainly working with the intel_pstate driver, and
only using the acpi-cpufreq driver for comparative tests.
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Title:
ondemand cpufreq governor does not scale CPU freq on Sandybridge
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I notice that turbostat shows all cpus stuck at the minimum 800MHz
(see attached log) on my system, even after rebooting twice. I used
"stress --cpu 8" to confirm that the frequencies remained at 800MHz
even under load.
It looks like the system is using the acpi-cpufreq driver with the
ondemand governor (has the default been changed so it does not use
intel p-state, as per
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1188647?).
Edit: See comment #1 below - it looks like I can manually change the cpu freq, but the governor cannot. Also, switching to use intel pstate fixes the problem.
The only unusual thing I had done prior to this was to boot into the weekly build of 3.12-rc3 just prior (this kernel kept the frequencies rather high, typically over 2GHz, ie using a lot more power than usual, so I rebooted back into the standard kernel).
This is the contents of the files in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/:
affected_cpus:
0
bios_limit:
2001000
cpuinfo_cur_freq:
800000
cpuinfo_max_freq:
2001000
cpuinfo_min_freq:
800000
cpuinfo_transition_latency:
10000
freqdomain_cpus:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
related_cpus:
0
scaling_available_frequencies:
2001000 2000000 1900000 1800000 1700000 1600000 1500000 1400000 1300000 1200000 1100000 1000000 900000 800000
scaling_available_governors:
conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance
scaling_cur_freq:
800000
scaling_driver:
acpi-cpufreq
scaling_governor:
ondemand
scaling_max_freq:
2001000
scaling_min_freq:
800000
scaling_setspeed:
<unsupported>
stats:
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: linux-image-3.11.0-9-generic 3.11.0-9.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-9.16-generic 3.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: rocko 2813 F.... pulseaudio
Date: Tue Oct 1 10:13:24 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-25 (401 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120724.2)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell System XPS L502X
MarkForUpload: True
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-9-generic root=UUID=67083065-b92e-4596-a218-817c1dfc8ae7 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-3.11.0-9-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-3.11.0-9-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.115
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-01 (30 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/29/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0NJT03
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd05/29/2012:svnDellInc.:pnDellSystemXPSL502X:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0NJT03:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: Dell System XPS L502X
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
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