From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?VG9yYWxmIEbDtnJzdGVy?= Subject: pwoertop frequencies not ordered descending Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:55:26 +0100 Message-ID: <54C6474E.6080805@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:56836 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752292AbbAZNz3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:55:29 -0500 Received: from [192.168.178.24] ([78.54.139.165]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MZkNy-1XycxF265G-00LWQ3 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:55:27 +0100 Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: "linux-pm >> Linux PM list" With the ACPI driver (and CPU governor "ondemand") the output of powertop looked always fine. However with the P-State driver I do now have this output at 2 hardened 64 bit Gentoo Linux systems: PowerTOP 2.6 Overview Idle stats Frequency stats Device stats Tunables Package | Core | CPU 0 CPU 1 | | Actual 2.6 GHz 2.7 GHz Idle 0.3% | Idle 63.2% | Idle 73.9% 75.0% 2.50 GHz 0.1% | 2.50 GHz 0.1% | 2.50 GHz 0.1% 0.0% 2.60 GHz 9.0% | 2.60 GHz 8.9% | 2.60 GHz 8.9% 0.3% 2.90 GHz 74.5% | 2.90 GHz 13.4% | 2.90 GHz 5.4% 11.3% 2.71 GHz 13.5% | 2.71 GHz 12.9% | 2.71 GHz 11.2% 12.3% 800 MHz 0.2% | 800 MHz 0.1% | 2.81 GHz 0.5% 0.1% 2.81 GHz 2.3% | 2.81 GHz 1.1% | 1200 MHz 0.0% 0.9% 900 MHz 0.0% | 1000 MHz 0.1% | 1100 MHz 0.0% 0.1% 1000 MHz 0.1% | 1200 MHz 0.0% | 1000 MHz 0.0% 0.0% 1200 MHz 0.0% | 900 MHz 0.0% | 800 MHz 0.0% 0.0% 1100 MHz 0.0% | 1100 MHz 0.0% | 900 MHz 0.0% 0.0% 1300 MHz 0.0% | 1500 MHz 0.0% | 0.0% 1500 MHz 0.0% | 1400 MHz 0.0% | 0.0% 1400 MHz 0.0% | | | Core | CPU 2 CPU 3 | | Actual 2.8 GHz 2.8 GHz | Idle 6.6% | Idle 23.1% 24.9% | 2.50 GHz 0.1% | 2.50 GHz 0.0% 0.1% | 2.60 GHz 8.9% | 2.60 GHz 0.1% 8.9% | 2.90 GHz 69.1% | 2.90 GHz 62.9% 62.5% Is this (partly ?) related to the kernel or just an issue of powertop ? -- Toralf pgp key: 7B1A 07F4 EC82 0F90 D4C2 8936 872A E508 0076 E94E