[Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate
Doug Smythies
1579278 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Sep 16 14:51:25 UTC 2016
What has been done here is incorrect.
The old "ondemand" script was modified so that if the intel_pstate
driver was being used, and therefore "ondemand" did not exist, it would
fall through to setting the "powersave" governor (refer to bug
#1314643). Note that "powersave" with the intel_pstate CPU frequency
scaling driver is NOT the same as "powersave" with the acpi-cpufreq CPU
frequency scaling driver.
The preferred governor with the intel_pstate driver is powersave. I'm
saying that this:
# more modern processors that support intel_pstate behave worse with
# ondemand/powersave and should use performance
if [ `cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$FIRSTCPU/cpufreq/scaling_driver` = intel_pstate ]; then
echo 'CPU supports intel_pstate, keeping "performance"'
exit 0
fi
is incorrect.
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Title:
Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support
intel_pstate
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
Invalid
Status in systemd source package in Xenial:
Invalid
Status in sysvinit source package in Xenial:
Triaged
Bug description:
Hi,
With the new Ubuntu archive servers, we saw constantly high load and
after some tinkering, we found that it was mostly CPUs being woken up
to see if they should enter idle states. Changing the CPU frequency
scaling governor to "performance" saw a considerable drop.
Perf report using the following commands:
| perf record -g -a sleep 10
| perf report
| Samples: 287K of event 'cycles:pp', Event count (approx.): 124776998906
| Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
| + 55.24% 0.20% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cpu_startup_entry
| + 53.51% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] start_secondary
| + 53.02% 0.08% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] call_cpuidle
| + 52.94% 0.02% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cpuidle_enter
| + 31.81% 0.67% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cpuidle_enter_state
| + 29.59% 0.12% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] acpi_idle_enter
| + 29.45% 0.05% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] acpi_idle_do_entry
| + 29.43% 29.43% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter
| + 20.51% 0.04% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ret_from_intr
| + 20.47% 0.12% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_IRQ
| + 19.30% 0.07% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] irq_exit
| + 19.18% 0.07% apache2 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
| + 18.80% 0.17% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __do_softirq
| + 16.45% 0.11% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] net_rx_action
| + 16.25% 0.43% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] be_poll
| + 14.74% 0.21% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] be_process_rx
| + 13.61% 0.07% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] napi_gro_frags
| + 12.58% 0.04% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] netif_receive_skb_internal
| + 12.48% 0.03% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __netif_receive_skb
| + 12.42% 0.24% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __netif_receive_skb_core
| + 12.41% 0.00% apache2 [unknown] [k] 0x00007f27983b5028
| + 12.41% 0.00% apache2 [unknown] [k] 0x00007f2798369028
| + 11.49% 0.16% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ip_rcv
| + 11.29% 0.09% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ip_rcv_finish
| + 10.77% 0.05% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ip_local_deliver
| + 10.70% 0.06% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ip_local_deliver_finish
| + 10.55% 0.22% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] tcp_v4_rcv
| + 10.10% 0.00% apache2 [unknown] [k] 0000000000000000
| + 10.01% 0.04% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] tcp_v4_do_rcv
Expanding in a few of those, you'll see:
| - 55.24% 0.20% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cpu_startup_entry
| - 55.04% cpu_startup_entry
| - 52.98% call_cpuidle
| + 52.93% cpuidle_enter
| + 0.00% ret_from_intr
| 0.00% cpuidle_enter_state
| 0.00% irq_entries_start
| + 1.14% cpuidle_select
| + 0.47% schedule_preempt_disabled
| 0.10% rcu_idle_enter
| 0.09% rcu_idle_exit
| + 0.05% ret_from_intr
| + 0.05% tick_nohz_idle_enter
| + 0.04% arch_cpu_idle_enter
| 0.02% cpuidle_enter
| 0.02% tick_check_broadcast_expired
| + 0.01% cpuidle_reflect
| 0.01% menu_reflect
| 0.01% atomic_notifier_call_chain
| 0.01% local_touch_nmi
| 0.01% cpuidle_not_available
| 0.01% menu_select
| 0.01% cpuidle_get_cpu_driver
| + 0.01% tick_nohz_idle_exit
| + 0.01% sched_ttwu_pending
| 0.00% set_cpu_sd_state_idle
| 0.00% native_irq_return_iret
| 0.00% schedule
| + 0.00% arch_cpu_idle_exit
| 0.00% __tick_nohz_idle_enter
| 0.00% irq_entries_start
| 0.00% sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event
| 0.00% reschedule_interrupt
| + 0.00% apic_timer_interrupt
| + 0.20% start_secondary
| + 0.00% x86_64_start_kernel
| + 53.51% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] start_secondary
| + 53.02% 0.08% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] call_cpuidle
| - 52.94% 0.02% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cpuidle_enter
| - 52.92% cpuidle_enter
| + 31.81% cpuidle_enter_state
| + 20.01% ret_from_intr
| + 0.51% apic_timer_interrupt
| 0.28% native_irq_return_iret
| + 0.09% reschedule_interrupt
| 0.05% irq_entries_start
| 0.05% do_IRQ
| 0.05% common_interrupt
| 0.02% sched_idle_set_state
| 0.01% acpi_idle_enter
| 0.01% ktime_get
| 0.01% restore_regs_and_iret
| 0.01% restore_c_regs_and_iret
| + 0.01% call_function_single_interrupt
| 0.00% native_iret
| + 0.00% call_function_interrupt
| 0.00% smp_apic_timer_interrupt
| 0.00% smp_reschedule_interrupt
| 0.00% smp_call_function_single_interrupt
| + 0.02% start_secondary
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