https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60727 Bug ID: 60727 Summary: The CPU frequency does not raise when compiling packages on Gentoo Product: Power Management Version: 2.5 Kernel Version: 3.11-rc4 Hardware: All OS: Linux Tree: Mainline Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: cpufreq Assignee: cpufreq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: patrakov@xxxxxxxxx Regression: No Created attachment 107170 --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=107170&action=edit Kernel config (3.11-rc4) The kernel used for this bug report is not a vanilla 3.11-rc4, but the one patched with https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=106891&action=diff from bug #58971. It is not possible to know whether this is a regression, because the bug (if it existed before) was effectively masked by bug #48721. To reproduce, compile a simple package (like media-libs/tiff-4.0.3-r2) on Gentoo using portage. Sometimes (but not always), during the whole process, the CPU frequency (both as reported by cpufreq-info and as reported by cat /proc/cpuinfo) doesn't raise as high as I would expect. I.e. it raises only to 1176 MHz, while I expect it to become 3.50 GHz on at least one CPU core, because the compilation process is clearly CPU bound. The driver is intel_pstate and the governor is powersave. It may be relevant that the load created by portage is nice (but there is no ignore_nice_load file in my sysfs tree), and that all of the configuration tests and gcc calls exit quickly. If the setting to ignore the nice load exists with intel_pstate but is not named ignore_nice_load, then please tell me about it - the bug may be invalid after all due to it. # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz stepping : 7 microcode : 0x28 cpu MHz : 1176.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5587.21 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz stepping : 7 microcode : 0x28 cpu MHz : 1176.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5587.21 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 2 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz stepping : 7 microcode : 0x28 cpu MHz : 1176.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 2 initial apicid : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5587.21 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz stepping : 7 microcode : 0x28 cpu MHz : 1176.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 3 initial apicid : 3 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5587.21 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. -- 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
