Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:23:45 +0000 | From | David Woodfall <> | Subject | Re: Problem with cpufreq and i5 since post 3.9.0 |
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On (28/12/13 01:50), Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> put forth the proposition: >CC: +Viresh and linux-pm > >On Saturday, December 28, 2013 12:09:01 AM David Woodfall wrote: >> On (27/12/13 19:53), Dave Woodfall <dave@dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition: >> >On (27/12/13 20:44), Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org> put forth the proposition: >> >>On 27.12.2013, David Woodfall wrote: >> >> >> >>>But any of the newer kernel versions I've tested only give me >> >>>performance and powersave. >> >> >> >>I don't use any Fedora kernel, so I can't tell which governors are >> >>enabled in those. You should check the value of "CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV" >> >>in the respective .config file for your installed kernel. >> >> >> >>In short: It seems that only "performance" and "powersave" are >> >>compiled in. >> > >> >No, I used the same .config in all versions that I tested. I've also >> >tried setting them as modules rather than built-in. This is the stock >> >slackware .config: >> > >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=m >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_COMMON=y >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=m >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS=y >> ># CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE=y >> ># CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND is not set >> ># CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=m >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=m >> >CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE=m >> > >> >And modprobing any governor module does not change the output of >> >scaling_available_governors. >> > >> >-Dave >> >> I'm also experiencing this with a Intel G640 dual core machine. >> Exactly the same effect. > >Do you have CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE set?
I did and unsetting it solves the problem.
Thanks for that pointer.
-Dave
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