On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:37:09 +0200 Olaf Freyer <aaron667@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 29.06.2011 00:06, schrieb Jesse Barnes: > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:01:58 +0200 > > Olaf Freyer <aaron667@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Am 28.06.2011 23:18, schrieb Jesse Barnes: > >>> 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... > > > I'm not sure either. I saw a single notification event yesterday while > in office - > previously I would have recieved 70000-90000 during that timeframe. > I consider the pure amount of notifications unsettling - and in case of > some > "real" issue it might even get lost inbetween those notifications. > > Maybe there is a possible compromise between the situation before and > after the patch? I'm willing to lose a few percent of GPU performance just > for the sake of getting lost of those notification events... Yeah we can probably tune these values a bit better... I'll see about doing that. We want to maximize performance across a variety of workloads, but not hit the power limit so hard even for basic stuff... -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
