Hi, I was recently running some SPEC benchmarks to test the way in which cpufreq module adjusts the CPU frequency for various benchmarks and I noticed that cpufreq always tends to rest at the maximum frequency regardless of the benchmark on ondemand / conservative. I then tried to identify memory intensive benchmarks (http://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/isca12-2.pdf) and upon running milc / libquantum, I noticed that the same trend continued. Does this mean that memory operation latencies are attributed as CPU busy time? Could someone explain the inner workings behind this? What does the CPU *really* do while the load/store is executing? Is it busy-waiting / idle? Regards Guru -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
