Carsten Schiers
2009-Jan-15 10:53 UTC
AW: AW: [Xen-devel] How to use Px/Cx for power saving?
Kevin, did I understand you right, that I have to tare care when using cpufreq=dom-kernel to pin vcpus to physical cpus? I didn''t do anythinh specific, but xm vcpu-list says:> Name ID VCPU CPU State Time(s) CPU Affinity > Domain-0 0 0 0 r-- 303.0 0 > Domain-0 0 1 1 -b- 225.2 1which looks ok. What would be the implication, if there is a fault? Could this be the reason for my TSC drifts mentioned elsewhere here on the list? Also, is acpi_cpufreq an alternative to e.g. powernow-k8 or speedstep-centrino? Whereas powernow-k8 works on my system, acpi_cpufreq is reporting a FATAL: No such device. It''s a quite new board, so I am not sure, whether this means the BIOS doesn''t support it (my asumption is, acpi_cpufreq uses the BIOS instead of a CPU-based driver, like powernow-k8). Thanks for helping me with all that stuff, it''s quite complicated if you''re new to it. BR, Carsten. ----- Originalnachricht ----- Von: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com> Gesendet: Don, 15.1.2009 03:40 An: ''Akio Takebe'' <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Carsten Schiers <carsten@schiers.de> ; xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> ; "Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@intel.com> Betreff: RE: AW: [Xen-devel] How to use Px/Cx for power saving?>From: Akio Takebe [mailto:takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com] >Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:05 AM > >> ''cpufreq=dom0-kernel'' can be always used to allow dom0 control >> freq directly. In such case, Xen itself exits the game, and then you >> have to follow below trick to enable CONFIG_CPU_FREQ in dom0 >> kernel. >> >If dom0_max_vcpus < total_phys_cpus, dom0 control only his cpus. >So other cpus don''t enter px/cx state, right? >And you recommend cpufreq=xen?Yes, I''m recommending cpufreq=xen which is more efficient and clearer method. For cpufreq=dom0-kernel, such implication exists to have dom0 vcpus pinned to corresponding physical cpus with same number. Unless your platform couldn''t work with acpi-cpufreq driver on native linux, you should always spin on cpufreq=xen. Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
>From: Carsten Schiers [mailto:carsten@schiers.de] >Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:54 PM > >Kevin, did I understand you right, that I have to tare care when using >cpufreq=dom-kernel to pin vcpus to physical cpus? I didn''t do anythinh >specific, but xm vcpu-list says: > >> Name ID VCPU CPU State >Time(s) CPU Affinity >> Domain-0 0 0 0 r-- 303.0 0 >> Domain-0 0 1 1 -b- 225.2 1 > >which looks ok. What would be the implication, if there is a >fault? Could >this be the reason for my TSC drifts mentioned elsewhere here >on the list?It''s implicitly enforced within Xen once you have dom0-kernel to control cpufreq.> >Also, is acpi_cpufreq an alternative to e.g. powernow-k8 or >speedstep-centrino?acpi_cpufreq is a more generic driver as long as corresponding ACPI tables are reported, which is the default one now in native Linux kernel. If underlying BIOS doesn''t conform to ACPI spec, then you need try specific cpufreq driver like speedstep-centrino then. although xen controls cpufreq itself now, xen still depends on dom0''s ACPI parser to retrieve necessary Px information. That''s why I said that xen controlled cpufreq should work if you could use acpi_cpufreq driver on native Linux which indicates a ACPI compliant system.>Whereas powernow-k8 works on my system, acpi_cpufreq is >reporting a FATAL: >No such device. It''s a quite new board, so I am not sure, >whether this means the >BIOS doesn''t support it (my asumption is, acpi_cpufreq uses >the BIOS instead of >a CPU-based driver, like powernow-k8).I don''t know AMD platform. But on most Intel platforms acpi_cpufreq should work well on native and so does Xen side. Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Langsdorf, Mark
2009-Jan-15 17:20 UTC
RE: AW: [Xen-devel] How to use Px/Cx for power saving?
> Also, is acpi_cpufreq an alternative to e.g. powernow-k8 or > speedstep-centrino?It is for Intel parts, but AMD power management does not quite follow the ACPI specification and acpi-cpufreq does not support it. For AMD parts, use powernow-k8. -Mark Langsdorf Operating System Research Center AMD _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel