Is there a way to dump the tstate of a cpu?  That doesn't 
seem to be present in the kstat cpu_info.

-- jdh


Anup Pemmaiah wrote:
> current_freq_Hz in "kstat cpu_info" gives the current freq of the 
> processor from which you
> can get the current P State of the processor.
> 
> HTH
> Anup
> 
> julia harper wrote:
>>
>> Is there any way to simply dump the pstate of a cpu at a single 
>> particular moment, rather than getting a pretty picture presentation 
>> that gets updated on some interval? For example, a command such as:
>>
>> $ cpupstate -c 2
>> 5
>>
>> to get a snapshot of cpu 2's current pstate (which is currently at 
>> pstate 5).
>>
>> Basically I'm looking for the equivalant to the cpufreq-info tool that 
>> is available on Linux.
>>
>> -- jdh
>>
>>
>> Rafael Vanoni wrote:
>>> I've uploaded a .tar file to our website with x86 binaries of the 
>>> latest development version. These include the --cpu option.
>>>
>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tesla/Work/Powertop/powertop.9364.tar
>>>
>>> Rafael
>>>
>>> julia harper wrote:
>>>> I just tried running
>>>> powertop -c 2
>>>>
>>>> and got a help message saying this is invalid:
>>>>
>>>> # powertop -c2
>>>> powertop: illegal option -- c
>>>> OpenSolaris PowerTOP version 1.1   (C) 2009 Intel Corporation
>>>>
>>>> Usage: powertop [option]
>>>>   -d, --dump [count]    Read wakeups count times and print list of 
>>>> top offenders
>>>>   -t, --time [interval] Default time to gather data in seconds [1-100s]
>>>>   -v, --verbose         Verbose mode, reports kernel cyclic activity
>>>>   -h, --help            Show this help message
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm running opensolaris 2009.06 pre-release (build 111a):
>>>> # uname -a
>>>> SunOS ban23uut175 5.11 snv_111a i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- jdh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rafael Vanoni wrote:
>>>>> Hi Julia
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, the default behavior is to average p-state residency between 
>>>>> CPUs. The information is gathered through DTrace and kstats. 
>>>>> There's a --cpu (or simply -c) option that will let you observe a 
>>>>> specific processor.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that there's a bug in the p-state report (6829404), which will 
>>>>> be fixed today. I can send you an updated binary once it goes back, 
>>>>> if you'd like.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Rafael
>>>>>
>>>>> julia harper wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a powertop question.  I just tried it on opensolaris, and 
>>>>>> can't figure out how to show the per cpu p-states.  It just shows 
>>>>>> one number, and there doesn't seem to be an option for more info.  
>>>>>> Is that number an average of the per cpus p-states?  My system has 
>>>>>> 2 Nehalem cpus in it (16 hw threads).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- jdh
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------------------
>>>>>>     Julia Harper, julia.harper at sun.com
>>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>

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