[CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel
Ned Slider
ned at unixmail.co.uk
Mon Aug 4 09:34:57 UTC 2008
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> S.Tindall wrote on Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:47:06 -0400:
>
>> The cpuspeed changelog may be relevant:
>>
>> [quote]
>> * Thu Mar 06 2008 Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com>
>>
>> - Disable freq scaling by default on AMD rev F and earlier cpus
>> when running xen, due to clock instability (#435321)
>> [/quote]
>
> Thanks, it didn't occur to me that cpuspeed may also be relevant to this.
> However, I don't think it's relevant for the wrong cpu frequency reading
> on the 3.2 Xen kernels (which in turn is responsible for the missing
> scalability). Cpuspeed is not part of the kernel and did not change during
> all my tests. See below for possible explanation.
>
>> I didn't look up your cpu, but I think it's a revision F.
>
> Hm, /proc/cpuinfo doesn't show any revision number. A bit googling tells
> me that the CPUs, at least the second one, are more likely to be rev. H or
> above. The older one is a 3800+ EE and the newer one is a 4850e which I
> bought right after it became available. Unless rev. G and up are only quad
> core CPUs at least the latter 45nm one should be rev G or up, too. But I
> can't find a definitive list, shouldn't there be one on the AMD site?
>
Maybe this is relevant to you:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15328&forum=41
quote
# Frequency scaling on AMD rev F CPUs under Xen can result in
# timekeeping problems for fully virtualized guests, so we disable
# it by default.
if [ -d /proc/xen ] && [ "$cpu_vendor" == AuthenticAMD ] \
&& [ "$cpu_family" -le 15 ]; then
default_governor=performance
fi
/quote
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