[Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at canonical.com
Wed May 1 16:28:15 UTC 2019


The last outstanding open task for sysvinit/xenial is also invalid, to
my understanding.  Both /etc/init.d/ondemand in <= xenial and
/lib/systemd/set-cpufreq in >= bionic implement the intended default
policy of interactive/ondemand/powersave, not performance.

** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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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:
  Invalid

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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