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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 2013 14:28:24 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org>, ?????? <lisen1001@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Xeon E5 cpu work in low status
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In-Reply-To: <20131104222454.GU59496@kib.kiev.ua>
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On 4 November 2013 14:24, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:

> My Intel board DQ67OW starts with the fixed CPU speed, which is
> configurable in BIOS. Unless OS starts managing the frequency with the
> cpufreq and powerd, CPU is locked to the pre-configured speed. It was
> not easy to understand why my single-user memory b/w benchmarks show
> half of the expected throughput for the cache, until I found the setting
> and found that Intel defaults to 1/2 of the marketing frequency.
>
> For my board, it is Performance->Processor Overrides->Maximum Non-Turbo
> Ratio.  It was set to 17, normal CPU mode is 34, turbo is 38 max.

Does powerd throttle each individual core like this? I don't have
anything laptop-y that's recent enough for that to matter.



-adrian



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