Hi Powertop developers,
Please help to evaluate if this is a bug:
I was using Powertop 2.6.1 on RHEL7.1beta and some servers including Ivybridge-EP/EX and
Haswell-1S/EP/EX.
And found Frequency stats show only 100% idle and no other frequency percentage, like the
following:
PowerTOP 2.6.1 Overview Idle stats Frequency stats Device stats Tunab
Package | Core | CPU 0 CPU 4
| | Actual 3.9 GHz 3.8 GHz
Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0% 100.0%
| Core | CPU 1 CPU 5
| | Actual 3.9 GHz 3.9 GHz
| Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0% 100.0%
| Core | CPU 2 CPU 6
| | Actual 3.8 GHz 3.8 GHz
| Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0% 100.0%
| Core | CPU 3 CPU 7
| | Actual 3.8 GHz 3.7 GHz
| Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0% 100.0%
When I add workloads, the Idle percentage drops, but still no other frequency percentage.
For servers, RHEL7 would use "throughput-performance" profile, which would keep
processor at its top frequency.
I just think PowerTop should not display idle percentage only, in my point of view,
when no workload, 90%+ idle and a few percentage at max frequency is reasonable.
when high workload, a few percentage idle and high percentage at max frequency is
reasonable.
The following is the result of "balanced" profile,
at least not all 100% idle.
PowerTOP 2.6.1 Overview Idle stats Frequency stats Device stats Tunab
Package | Core | CPU 0 CPU 4
| | Actual 3.6 GHz 3.3 GHz
Idle 99.8% | Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0% 100.0%
4.00 GHz 0.1% | 4.00 GHz 0.0% | 4.00 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
3.31 GHz 0.0% | |
1400 MHz 0.0% | |
2.10 GHz 0.1% | |
| Core | CPU 1 CPU 5
| | Actual 3.6 GHz 3.5 GHz
| Idle 99.8% | Idle 100.0% 99.9%
| 4.00 GHz 0.1% | 3.31 GHz 0.0% 0.1%
| 3.31 GHz 0.0% | 1400 MHz 0.0% 0.1%
| 1400 MHz 0.0% | 4.00 GHz 0.0%
| 2.10 GHz 0.1% |
| Core | CPU 2 CPU 6
| | Actual 3.4 GHz 3.2 GHz
| Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0% 100.0%
| 4.00 GHz 0.0% | 4.00 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
| 2.10 GHz 0.0% | 2.10 GHz 0.0%
| |
| |
| Core | CPU 3 CPU 7
| | Actual 3.4 GHz 2.9 GHz
| Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0% 100.0%
| 3.31 GHz 0.0% | 3.31 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
| 4.00 GHz 0.0% | 4.00 GHz 0.0%
| 2.10 GHz 0.0% | 2.10 GHz 0.0%
Thanks,
-Wang, Xiaolong from Intel OTC OSV-Enabling
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