AMDGPU To Expose More Information About GPU Throttling Status

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDGPU To Expose More Information About GPU Throttling Status

The AMD Radeon "AMDGPU" kernel driver for Linux is poised to report more graphics throttling status information to user-space...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Throttling-Status

[skeevy420]

While cool, I'm sure most of us know what's throttling our Renoirs: DDR4

[boxie]

/me crosses fingers that vega also gets this

It'll be rather handy for profile tuning work!

[leuc]

I wrote some python code to decode the GPU metrics values from sysfs, including the throttle status. There are different sets of values for the different GPU families, but i only could test it with one device so far.

Please help with running the script on more devices, so i can improve the code.

Here is the script: "amdgpu_metrics.py"

https://gist.github.com/leuc/e45f4dc64dc1db870e4bad1c436228bb