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From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
To: Melanie Kambadur <melanie@cs.columbia.edu>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	David C Niemi <dniemi@verisign.com>
Cc: "cpufreq@vger.kernel.org" <cpufreq@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: powersave governor runs programs faster and uses more power than performance governor
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 07:40:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <526A82CC.1040709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMeUXYuQobSo7Au07V2KBE6=mAqXW1Hj--G92FP0X1H97Kv8OA@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/24/2013 12:42 PM, Melanie Kambadur wrote:
>
>  From /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/cpufreq/scaling_driver I get that
> the current p-state driver is called "intel_pstate". David, you
> mention that the firmware governors are not very efficient, do you
> suggest replacing the intel_pstate driver with a different driver?

I will need to look and see why changing to performance isn't working
correctly.

To get the behavior of the performance governor you can use

    echo 100 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct

This will force intel_pstate to select the highest P state and
leave it there.

Turbostat is useful for collecting frequency (P state) and idle (C state)
information.

--Dirk



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-25 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAMeUXYuuM4LS2qAhhvQi8VG1bK4eiZjjTikchgHzeqi2EX6=bw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-10-24  5:28 ` powersave governor runs programs faster and uses more power than performance governor Viresh Kumar
2013-10-24 19:42   ` Melanie Kambadur
2013-10-25 14:31     ` David C Niemi
2013-10-25 14:40     ` Dirk Brandewie [this message]
2013-10-25 15:13       ` Melanie Kambadur
2013-10-25 15:38         ` Dirk Brandewie
2013-10-25 16:35           ` Melanie Kambadur
2013-10-25 18:27             ` David C Niemi
2013-10-29 16:25               ` Melanie Kambadur
2013-10-29 16:27                 ` Melanie Kambadur
2013-10-29 17:03                   ` Dirk Brandewie
     [not found]                     ` <CAMeUXYswoEhNbVua6wV-qg_DL5mn5Eahdny12wvSbs02h16RBQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-11 19:46                       ` David C Niemi

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