Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 585570
cpufreq ondemand does not switch down
Last modified: 2011-06-27 11:51:11 EDT
Description of problem: When cpufreq / cpuspeed is enable and running with governor "ondemand", it stays at the highest frequency without ever switching to lower, even on a completely idle machine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cpufrequtils-007-1.fc13.i686 Linux version 2.6.33.2-57.fc13.i686.PAE How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. cpufreq-set -gondemand 2. make sure nothing is running on the machine. 3. cpufreq-info Actual results: cpu is running at the highest possible frequency Expected results: cpu should be running at the lowest frequency Additional info: I run Fedora 10 on the exact same hardware, and cpufreq works as expected, at the lowest frequency most of the time, and switching to a higher frequency when the machine becomes busy.
Yves, could you attach the /proc/cpuinfo info and dmidecode's output to this bugzilla. thanks,
/proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 10 model name : VIA Esther processor 1200MHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 1200.000 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm nx up pni est tm2 rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 a ce2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en bogomips : 2400.11 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management:
Created attachment 409075 [details] dmidecode output for Jetway J7F4K1G2E
uhmm... Via... cpufreq-info output will be helpful as well then. thank you! :)
cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: acpi-cpufreq CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: 10.0 us. hardware limits: 400 MHz - 1.20 GHz available frequency steps: 1.20 GHz, 400 MHz available cpufreq governors: ondemand, userspace, performance current policy: frequency should be within 400 MHz and 1.20 GHz. The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 1.20 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).
I re-built my machine with Fedora 12, and this same problem is happening there too. Note that I have another machine (exact same hardware) with Fedora 10, which does not have this problem.
Yves, I'm a bit stuck, don't have such cpu around. please could you provide the contents of dmesg dump from a fresh boot with cpufreq.debug=7 added as a kernel boot parameter.
Yves, please, the output I requested is important for solving your issue.
Sorry, been busy, but I will get the info requested sometimes this week.
Created attachment 413024 [details] dmesg output with cpufreq.debug=7
Yves, could you confirm the frequency scaling works fine before suspend-resume cycle. I see the dmesg polluted right after resume. :/
escalated to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15965
Sorry about that, I keep re-building this box, I originally wanted to run FC13 but run into a bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583223) that prevent me from using it at all. The machine is currently at FC12 and wasn't patched. I have done yum update on it last night. The cpufreq issue is still there (was in FC13 last time I checked too), I will put a keyboard and monitor on it and re-start it with cpufreq.debug=7 again, and will post the output. The dmesg loop might go away.
Created attachment 413604 [details] dmesg output with cpufreq.debug=7 on FC12 after a yum update
Yves, I'd like to ask you to get an account at bugzilla.kernel.org and provide few more info there. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15965 So that I won't act as proxy and you help us directly in solving your issue. :) Thank you very much.
(In reply to comment #11) > Yves, could you confirm the frequency scaling works fine before suspend-resume > cycle. I see the dmesg polluted right after resume. :/ This is a low power main board which, as far as I know, does not support suspend/resume - I sure don't suspend it.... (In reply to comment #15) > Yves, I'd like to ask you to get an account at bugzilla.kernel.org and > provide few more info there. > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15965 > So that I won't act as proxy and you help us directly in solving your issue. > :) Thank you very much. I did so tonight.
(In reply to comment #16) > I did so tonight. thanks for your effort! Will be watching the progress...
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