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From: "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
To: 'Srinivas Pandruvada' <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	'Larry Finger' <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	"'Rafael J. Wysocki'" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: "'Rafael J. Wysocki'" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	'LKML' <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	'Linux PM list' <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Regression in 4.8 - CPU speed set very low
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:12:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003001d2186d$02c34820$0849d860$@net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ohH4bKxaUa8e7ohH5blnhh

On 2016.09.26 18:31 Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 19:48 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 09/26/2016 07:21 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: 
>>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> But for both we need a reproducer anyway.
>> I do not have a reliable reproducer. The condition has always
>> happened when 
>> running a high-compute job such as a 'make -j8' on the kernel, or
>> building the 
>> RPM for openSUSE's implementation of VirtualBox. The latter is what
>> I'm using 
>> for most of my testing.

Run some CPU stressor and get all your CPU's going at 100% load.
And watch your core temperatures while you do so.

> 
>>> It also would be good to rule out the thermal throttling (as per
>>> the Srinivas' comments).

It is almost certainly thermal throttling, or similar causing
Clock modulation, of it seems 50%.

>>> 
>>> For now, please tell me what's in
>>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq
>> 800000
> Your effective freq is lower than 800MHz. One of the possible reason is
> thermal throttling.
>
> What distro you are using?

And what make and model of LapTop?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-27  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <28fa8706-4251-4d07-6a6a-4ee8d9d1267b@lwfinger.net>
     [not found]   ` <2be25c2e-8c10-e62a-3a66-19da8143f2b0@lwfinger.net>
2016-09-26 11:37     ` Regression in 4.8 - CPU speed set very low Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-26 16:15       ` Larry Finger
2016-09-26 21:06         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-26 21:26           ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-09-26 21:30             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-26 21:41               ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-09-26 21:46                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-26 21:28           ` Larry Finger
2016-09-26 21:37             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-26 21:46               ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-09-26 22:15                 ` Larry Finger
2016-09-26 22:09               ` Larry Finger
2016-09-26 22:16                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-26 23:53                   ` Larry Finger
2016-09-27  0:21                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-27  0:48                       ` Larry Finger
2016-09-27  1:30                         ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-09-27  2:53                           ` Larry Finger
2016-09-27  3:12                         ` Doug Smythies [this message]
2016-09-27  8:48                           ` Larry Finger
2016-09-27 11:46                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-29  2:22                               ` Larry Finger
2016-09-29 12:19                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-29 15:09                                   ` Larry Finger
2016-09-29 15:56                                   ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-09-29 16:24                                     ` Larry Finger
2016-09-29 20:52                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-30 21:52                                     ` Larry Finger
2016-09-27 14:51             ` Lennart Sorensen
2016-09-29  2:26               ` Larry Finger
2016-09-29 14:17                 ` Lennart Sorensen

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