From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755140Ab0JCVRD (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2010 17:17:03 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:37337 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754894Ab0JCVRC (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2010 17:17:02 -0400 From: Thomas Renninger To: Heinz Diehl Subject: Re: [cpufreq] ondemand: Intel i5-450M gets stuck in lowest state Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 23:16:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20101003190012.GA29952@fritha.org> In-Reply-To: <20101003190012.GA29952@fritha.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201010032316.52532.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, best you open a bug on: https://bugzilla.kernel.org attach acpidump and dmesg and paste below as description. The root cause should be ACPI related, the patch is in the cpufreq subsystem, can you assign the bug against ACPI and also CC myself and the cpufreqlist: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org It shouldn't be a big deal to get this sanity check in, but it would still be interesting to know about the latency value exported by the ACPI tables which seem to be wrong. Eh, best you also check for a BIOS update, this could fix it. We might want to reduce the sampling rate even further for latest CPUs. Thanks, Thomas On Sunday 03 October 2010 09:00:12 pm Heinz Diehl wrote: > Hi, > > I own a brand new ASUS U45JC laptop with an Intel i5-450M CPU built in. > During the first compile on it, I noticed that the CPU reached max. 1.33 > GHz using governor "ondemand". Kicking the CPU with a kernel compile using > "make -j4" didn't help either, max. frequency was nailed at 1.33 GHz. Both > the latest stable 2.6.35.7 and release candidate 2.6.36-rc6-git2 are > affected. > > After 2 days investigating (I'm not primarily a kernel > programmer/developer), I came across the solution, and there was already a > patch available from Thomas Renninger @suse, which I have included in this > mail. I blindly guess now that a lot of people own a notebook with an Intel > i5 inside, and maybe (could) have the same problem. > > Any chance to get this included in the kernel, or is it just me who > encounters this problem? The patch applies cleanly against the latest rc, > and I can confirm that it also fixes the above mentioned problem in > 2.6.35.7 (I backported it and did try). > > Thanks, > Heinz. > > > --- > drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) > > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ > #define MICRO_FREQUENCY_MIN_SAMPLE_RATE (10000) > #define MIN_FREQUENCY_UP_THRESHOLD (11) > #define MAX_FREQUENCY_UP_THRESHOLD (100) > +#define MAX_DEFAULT_SAMPLING_RATE (300 * 1000U) > > /* > * The polling frequency of this governor depends on the capability of > @@ -736,6 +737,29 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct c > dbs_tuners_ins.sampling_rate = > max(min_sampling_rate, > latency * LATENCY_MULTIPLIER); > + /* > + * Cut def_sampling rate to 300ms if it was above, > + * still consider to not set it above latency > + * transition * 100 > + */ > + if (dbs_tuners_ins.sampling_rate > MAX_DEFAULT_SAMPLING_RATE) { > + dbs_tuners_ins.sampling_rate = > + max(min_sampling_rate, MAX_DEFAULT_SAMPLING_RATE); > + printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: ondemand sampling " > + "rate set to %d ms\n", > + dbs_tuners_ins.sampling_rate / 1000); > + } > + /* > + * Be conservative in respect to performance. > + * If an application calculates using two threads > + * depending on each other, they will be run on several > + * CPU cores resulting on 50% load on both. > + * SLED might still want to prefer 80% up_threshold > + * by default, but we cannot differ that here. > + */ > + if (num_online_cpus() > 1) > + dbs_tuners_ins.up_threshold = > + DEF_FREQUENCY_UP_THRESHOLD / 2; > dbs_tuners_ins.io_is_busy = should_io_be_busy(); > } > mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex);