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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: "Paweł Staszewski" <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>
Cc: Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel Xeon 5649 2.53GHz Turbo problem
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:29:28 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111114032928.GA2360@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC02231.9030501@itcare.pl>

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Paweł Staszewski wrote:
> How can I check if Turbo Boost is working with Xeon E5649
> 
> I have turbostats that shows:
> pk cr CPU    %c0  GHz  TSC    %c1    %c3    %c6  %pc3  %pc6
>            56.12 2.67 2.53  43.88   0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00
                   ^^^^
It is working.

> So 2.67Ghz - but based on Intel spec max Turbo freq. for this cpu is 2.93Ghz

You have too many cores active.  You'll have to quiesce 4 cores into C6
to get 2.93GHz[1] out of the remaining 2 cores in the package.

[1]
http://www.intel.de/content/dam/doc/specification-update/xeon-5600-specification-update.pdf

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-13 20:01 Intel Xeon 5649 2.53GHz Turbo problem Paweł Staszewski
2011-11-14  3:29 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]

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