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    Phoronix: P-State Algorithm Change, Schedutil IOWait Boosting

    While still in early form and won't be merged for this next kernel cycle (v4.8), a series of patches were published on Sunday to improve CPU frequency selection under Linux, including an algorithm change for the Intel P-State scaling driver...

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  • #2
    Indeed my CPU frequency monitor almost always shows that my i5 is running at its maximum turbo frequency (at least one of the cores), even with CPU loads around 1% (on kernel 4.4.6 and below with intel_pstate in performance mode). It will be interesting to see how the new algorithm behaves.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by stqn View Post
      on kernel 4.4.6 and below with intel_pstate in performance mode
      Err, performance mode is *supposed to* keep the frequency at maximum. And since at least something will be happening on a running system all the time, it makes sense that the core doing this something will be at max turbo. Of course that doesn't actually mean it's really at that freq all the time, because there's also C states - the freq is actually zero (the clock is gated) in states C3 and deeper.

      Basically, your system is behaving is you've instructed it to. Use powersave mode if you want frequency scaling. intel_pstate powersave is equivalent to acpi_cpufreq ondemand.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Gusar View Post
        Err, performance mode is *supposed to* keep the frequency at maximum.
        Hm you’re right, although it doesn’t do that, which is a bit confusing.
        https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documenta...tel-pstate.txt

        Edit: I switched to powersave but it changed nothing, still max turbo speed on all cores most of the time.
        Last edited by stqn; 01 August 2016, 06:28 AM.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by stqn View Post
          Edit: I switched to powersave but it changed nothing, still max turbo speed on all cores most of the time.
          How are you measuring CPU usage? powertop? turbostat? Is the CPU at least in C7 most of the time?

          Anyway, it's possible you're one of those with a faulty experience, as the article puts it. I've been there too. Try a newer kernel. If that won't do, disable intel_pstate for now and fall back to acpi_cpufreq ondemand.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Gusar View Post
            How are you measuring CPU usage? powertop? turbostat? Is the CPU at least in C7 most of the time?

            Anyway, it's possible you're one of those with a faulty experience, as the article puts it. I've been there too. Try a newer kernel. If that won't do, disable intel_pstate for now and fall back to acpi_cpufreq ondemand.
            intel_pstate is not working well here either, on kernel 4.6.4

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            • #7
              This is probably the reason why Clear OS disables pstate by default.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Gusar View Post
                How are you measuring CPU usage? powertop? turbostat? Is the CPU at least in C7 most of the time?
                With Xfce panel plugins. How would I know if it’s in "C7"?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by stqn View Post
                  With Xfce panel plugins.
                  *facepalm*

                  Panel plugins or similar things (like conky) cannot show you what's actually going on with the CPU. They update at most every second, while the CPU state changes in *millisecond* intervals.

                  Originally posted by stqn View Post
                  How would I know if it’s in "C7"?
                  By using proper tools to measure CPU activity, I mentioned the two best ones - powertop and turbostat. Run turbostat with the --debug switch, that way you'll also get C states, PC states (package C states) and in the latest version even the RC state (render C states, this one is the GPU). Powertop will show all of these as well.
                  Last edited by Gusar; 01 August 2016, 01:10 PM.

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                  • #10
                    with i7 6500u pstate works much better than cpufreq, with intel i7 4720hq cpufreq works better, depends the cpu, for exemple, with ulv cpu the vcore never come lower with cpufreq, some type of bug in kernel

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