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From: "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
To: 'Paul Menzel' <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, 'LKML' <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	'Srinivas Pandruvada' <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	'Len Brown' <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Subject: RE: intel_pstate: Lowest frequency not reached with Intel i7-6700
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:06:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701d4926f$533eb270$f9bc1750$@net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: XCF0g8mvUQvFWXCF1gj1RM

On 2018.12.12 13:40 Paul Menzel wrote:

> Using *powersave* as P-state selection algorithm, on an idle system

Define "idle system".
If your computer is running a GUI, or is even a server without a GUI
but with many services running, then "idle" really isn't.
Below is from my test server, with many services disabled, so
"idle" really is quite "idle"

doug@s15:~/temp$ sudo turbostat --Summary --quiet --show Busy%,Bzy_MHz,PkgTmp,PkgWatt --interval 15
Busy%   Bzy_MHz PkgTmp  PkgWatt
0.01    1608    27      3.71
0.01    1619    27      3.71
0.01    1600    28      3.71
0.01    1600    28      3.70

Note that p state 16 (1600 MHz) is the minimum for my older i7-2600k processor.

> Shouldn’t it go down until 800 MHz?

We would need some actual busy information, turbostat is the recommended tool,
to know for sure.

... Doug

             reply	other threads:[~2018-12-12 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-12 23:06 Doug Smythies [this message]
2018-12-13  9:54 ` intel_pstate: Lowest frequency not reached with Intel i7-6700 Paul Menzel
2018-12-13 10:39   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-12-13 12:41     ` Paul Menzel
2018-12-13 16:36       ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-12-13 16:21     ` Doug Smythies
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-12-12 21:40 Paul Menzel

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