On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:01:58 +0200 Olaf Freyer <aaron667@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 28.06.2011 23:18, schrieb Jesse Barnes: > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:09:45 +0200 > > Olaf Freyer <aaron667@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>> I'd guess ccab5c82759e2ace74b2e84f82d1e0eedd932571 could be the > >>>>> cause. Can you check if the appended revert of that commit makes > >>>>> things disappear? > >>>> It seems like you guessed perfectly correct - reverting the commit makes > >>>> those notifications go away at once. > >>>> > >>> Without this reverted you see messages? I missed the earlier stuff, > >>> what message are you seeing? > >>> > >> Since 2.6.39 I saw those as soon as I start up the xserver: > >> > >> May 22 14:41:34 localhost kernel: [ 57.525848] CPU0: Package power > >> limit notification (total events = 1) > >> May 22 14:41:34 localhost kernel: [ 57.536904] CPU0: Package power > >> limit normal > > Ok interesting, didn't realize X startup was so GPU intensive. :) > > > > The patch you reverted will definitely cause the GPU to ramp up its > > frequency much faster than before, but it sounds like on your system > > you might also see it with the revert if you run something GPU > > intensive like nexuiz. > > > > The CPU (and by extension the GPU) will take care of itself though; if > > things get too hot or over power, it will clock throttle to keep itself > > in a safe range. > I also see the message alot during my daily average usage of my computer > (just using Firefox, Thunderbird and IntelliJ) - seeing things like > CPU3: Package power limit notification (total events = 90809) > after a normal day in the office became normal since 2.6.39. > > I just gave nexuiz a try for about 30 minutes with the reversal patch > applied - > and not a single message appeared in my logs. Sounds like with the patch reverted we can't drive your GPU and CPU hard enough to generate the messages. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing though... -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
