From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755661AbcDDOMt (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:12:49 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-f65.google.com ([209.85.213.65]:36350 "EHLO mail-vk0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751744AbcDDOMr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:12:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <002f01d18e39$3b1691f0$b143b5d0$@net> References: <1459376311.13525.108.camel@linux.intel.com> <003b01d18ad6$831941c0$894bc540$@net> <002301d18b59$d208fe50$761afaf0$@net> <1459610923.5912.36.camel@linux.intel.com> <001201d18ddb$0102ccd0$03086670$@net> <002f01d18e39$3b1691f0$b143b5d0$@net> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:12:46 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [intel-pstate driver regression] processor frequency very high even if in idle From: Sedat Dilek To: Doug Smythies Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux PM list , LKML , =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Otte?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Doug Smythies wrote: > On 2016.03.04 22:14 Sedat Dilek wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Doug Smythies wrote: >>> On 2016.04.02 11:21 Sedat Dilek wrote: >>>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Jörg Otte wrote: >>>>> 2016-04-02 17:28 GMT+02:00 Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: >>>>> > >> are you involved in the Ubuntu-OS? Developer for Canonical? > > I try to help with Ubuntu as a community volunteer. > I am not a developer with Canonical. > > ... [cut]... > >>> As far as I know the /etc/init.d/ondemand is working properly. It sets the acpi-cpufreq >>> driver to use the "ondemand" governor and it sets the intel_pstate driver to use the >>> "powersave" governor. >>> > >> I haven't looked at this exactly. >> The ondemand-script is not saying to fall back to "powersave" in case >> of intel_pstate-driver (here on Ubuntu/precise). > > It is likely that newer versions of /etc/init.d/ondemand script > were never backported to the older 12.04 precise release. > Why not? Well, because, as far as I know, that release never used the > intel_pstate driver by default and so never had to fall through > to the powersave alternative. > > Earlier on this thread, Srinivas correctly asked Jörg what distribution > was being used, so as to hopefully make it easier to reproduce the issue. > If we want to continue this distro specific conversation, perhaps > we should move it off-list or to some Ubuntu specific forum. > Yes, it is getting off-topic. Sorry for this. I know I am here on my own and I think how to fix this. ( Honestly, I forgot about the initial issue. ) - Sedat -