Re: [3.14-rc3] possible regression Haswell runs only at 770Mhz with powersave governor

Otto Meier
2014-02-20T19:06:52Z

Am 20.02.2014 17:48, schrieb Dirk Brandewie:
> On 02/20/2014 07:01 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Add lists to CC.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 03:32:36PM +0100, Otto Meier wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> My System which runs with older kernels up to 3.13.3
>>> fine on my i3-4330 with 3.5 Ghz and governor powersave.
>>> and pstate driver.
>>>
>>> With kernel 3.14-rc3 and Governor powersave it runs
>>> only at 770Mhz and never switches to higher Freq. on load.
>>> Even compiling a kernel with make -j4 does not change freq.
>>>
>
> commit fcb6a15c2e7e76d493e6f91ea889ab40e1c643a4 seems to be the culprit
>
>>> With governor performance it switches to 3.5 Ghz and stays
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Any Idea how to fix this?
>>>
>
> Greg KH is seeing the same thing on his Haswell system. I am trying
> to figure what went south.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/19/626
>
>
> Can you send me the .config for the broken kernel also the output of
> gcc -v
>
>
>
>>> Best regards
>>
>
>
>

Hello

I reverted the mentioned commit.

it now seams to work. But total idle power comsumption is aprox. 5 Watts
higher as
running kernel 3.13.3. Measured with a true rms powermeter on primery side.

gcc -v:

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-suse-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada
--enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8
--enable-ssp --disable-libssp --disable-plugin
--with-bugurl=http://bugs.opensuse.org/ --with-pkgversion='SUSE Linux'
--disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --with-slibdir=/lib64
--with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-linker-build-id
--program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-linux-futex --without-system-libunwind
--with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic --build=x86_64-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.1 20130909 [gcc-4_8-branch revision 202388] (SUSE Linux)

.config:

#
# Power management and ACPI options
#
CONFIG_ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER=y
CONFIG_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_SUSPEND_FREEZER=y
CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS=y
CONFIG_HIBERNATION=y
CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION=""
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP=y
CONFIG_PM_AUTOSLEEP=y
CONFIG_PM_WAKELOCKS=y
CONFIG_PM_WAKELOCKS_LIMIT=100
CONFIG_PM_WAKELOCKS_GC=y
CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_PM_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_PM_ADVANCED_DEBUG=y
# CONFIG_PM_TEST_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_DEBUG=y
# CONFIG_DPM_WATCHDOG is not set
CONFIG_PM_TRACE=y
CONFIG_PM_TRACE_RTC=y
CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=m
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_DOCK=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR=m
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA=y
CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE=""
# CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_INITRD_TABLE_OVERRIDE=y
CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PCI_SLOT=y
CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_SBS is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_HED is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_APEI=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_PCIEAER=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_MEMORY_FAILURE is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_ERST_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_EXTLOG is not set
CONFIG_SFI=y

#
# CPU Frequency scaling
#
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_COMMON=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=m
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE is not set
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE=m

bye