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From: Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>
To: dingxn@ymail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a question about p4_clockmod module on Xeon quad core processors
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:47:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <498215C9.6090208@felter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <765076.76058.qm@web59913.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

This will give you an effective speed of 250 MHz:

for cpu in 0 1 2 3; do
	cpufreq-set -c $cpu -g userspace
	cpufreq-set -c $cpu -u 2.0GHz
	wrmsr -p $cpu 0x19A 0x12
done

0x19A is the IA32_CLOCK_MODULATION MSR and 0x12 is calculated from the 
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual section 
13.5.3. Legal MSR values are 0x12 (12.5% duty cycle) - 0x1E (87.5%) or 
0x00 for 100%. I tested it on a quad-core Xeon and it works.

This is somewhat reckless, so use it with caution.

Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 20:17 a question about p4_clockmod module on Xeon quad core processors Xiaoning Ding
2009-01-27 21:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-29 16:12   ` Xiaoning Ding
2009-01-28 21:02 ` Dave Jones
2009-01-29  2:06   ` Xiaoning Ding
2009-01-29  2:45     ` Dave Jones
2009-01-29 16:32       ` Xiaoning Ding
2009-01-29 17:08         ` Dave Jones
2009-01-29 12:27   ` Michael Tokarev
2009-01-29 17:24     ` Dave Jones
2009-01-29 19:40       ` Xiaoning Ding
2009-01-29 19:54         ` Dave Jones
2009-01-28 21:05 ` Wes Felter
2009-01-29  2:11   ` Xiaoning Ding
2009-01-29 20:47     ` Wes Felter [this message]
2009-01-30  1:12       ` Xiaoning Ding

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