linux-kernel - Re: Regression in 4.8 - CPU speed set very low

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Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:41:49 -0700
From:   Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in 4.8 - CPU speed set very low

On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 23:30 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada
> <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 23:06 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Monday, September 26, 2016 11:15:45 AM Larry Finger wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I have been reluctant to post my entire .config on the list. It
> > > > is
> > > > available at
> > > > http://pastebin.com/aMZaAKwL.
> > > 
> > > If the governor is ondemand, the driver is acpi-cpufreq, most
> > > likely.
> > > 
> > > How do you measure the frequency?
> > > 
> > Also
> > When you get into this situation, please dump:
> > # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/scaling_max_freq
> > # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/*
> 
> The driver is not intel_pstate.
I guessed from
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE=y
and
Frequency is not 400 but something like 396.130


Thanks,
Srinivas