[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051733] Re: Specifying nohz_full breaks CPU frequency reporting

2024-02-01 Thread Doug Smythies
The way it is currently done, I don't think valid CPU frequency listing via "scaling_cur_freq", or /proc/cpuinfo, is expected to work. Why not? Because the required code is never executed, on purpose. Here is an excerpt from a commit (see the bit about NOHZ full) commit

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051733] Re: Specifying nohz_full breaks CPU frequency reporting

2024-02-01 Thread Doug Smythies
CPU frequency scaling driver: intel_pstate CPU frequency scaling governor: powersave HWP: disabled. Purpose to verify that the driver is working correctly, regardless of CPU frequencies reported. A single threaded load was applied to CPU 5 at 347 hertz sleep/work frequency. The load was

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051733] Re: Specifying nohz_full breaks CPU frequency reporting

2024-01-31 Thread Doug Smythies
There is a high probability that the root issue here is related to some work done in August September. There was already an outstanding issue with intel_cpufreq driver / schedutil governor, hwp enabled. References:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-31 Thread Doug Smythies
I redid the Phoronix Stress-NG 0.16.04: Socket Activity test, the one that showed such a dramatic difference in their test. I increased to number of test runs from 3 to 10 and time per run from 30 to 60 seconds. I got: 250Hz kernel (generic): 6608.74 Bogo Op/s, Deviation 0.56% 1000Hz kernel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051733] Re: Specifying nohz_full disables CPU frequency scaling

2024-01-31 Thread Doug Smythies
Yes, this happens also with the mainline kernel. It also happens with the intel_cpufreq CPU frequency scaling driver (i.e. the intel_pstate driver in passive mode), and all governors. It also happens with the acpi-cpufreq CPU frequency scaling driver, and all governors. However the manifestations

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051733] Re: Specifying nohz_full disables CPU frequency scaling

2024-01-30 Thread Doug Smythies
I confirm your findings. In my case I am using: The intel_pstate CPU frequency scaling driver; powersave CPU frequency scaling governor; HWP, HardWare Pstate, control is disabled; A mainline kernel, 6.8-rc1, compiled with the kernel configuration changes being considered in that other bug report.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-30 Thread Doug Smythies
For the Stress-NG 0.16.04: pts/stress-ng-1.11.0 [Test: Socket Activity] I get: 6633.31 Bogo Ops/s on a 1000Hz kernel. 0.9% improvement. 6572.92 Bogo Ops/s on a 250 Hz kernel. I did this in a hurry, and will re-test tonight or tomorrow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-28 Thread Doug Smythies
Before my post yesterday, I had never used the stress-ng utility, and only did so to repeat the originally posted test case. However, there was run to run variability with the stress-ng test that I could not understand for a 100% user, 0% system, type program. I decided to retest using one my own

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-27 Thread Doug Smythies
I found this bug report by accident, while searching for something else. I pretty much only use mainline kernels and only 1000 Hertz. I support this proposed default Ubuntu kernel configuration change. The tick ISR is incredibly efficient (less than 2 uSec on my test system), and I do not

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1950914] Re: [daily jammy-live-server-amd64] Hangs at start of VM installation

2022-04-26 Thread Doug Smythies
O.K. thank you for your input. I confirm deletion of "--video=vmvga" allows things to continue. Historically, that was needed in and since 2013, when the default video "cirrus" did not work. I now observe the default video is "qxl" which seems to work. Ya, apport logs are not needed for this

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
I would still likes to know what MSR 0x64F says, as per comment #20. Yes, thermald should have been disabled for all of this stuff, and I thought it was. Recall one the askubuntu threads, where I suggested writing 0x4005C to MSR 0x1FC. Do so at your own risk. Your hardware seems to have issues,

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Your processor is indicating this: PROCHOT# or FORCEPR# Event (bit 2, RO) — Indicates whether PROCHOT# or FORCEPR# is being asserted by another agent on the platform. The related sticky log bit is also set. This is something I suspected a couple of months ago, on one of those askubuntu

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Sorry, 0x16f was wrong, it should have been 0x64F. I have no idea why you are doing strace on this stuff. Since you haven't used my decoder, it will be sometime before I manually decode. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Since the intel_pstate driver is asking for 3.4 GHz, but the processor itself is only granting 0.8 GHz we now know that the throttling is within the processor and not externally driven. It might be related to what koba noted in comment #8, I don't know. The processor has MSRs with bits to

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-04 Thread Doug Smythies
When the frequency seems stuck at 800 MHz, then please put a load on a CPU and look at the pstate request and granted MSR's. Example, where I force CPU 2: $ taskset -c 2 yes > /dev/null and then look at the request and granted pstates: $ sudo rdmsr --bitfield 15:8 -u -a 0x199 8 8 48 8 30 8 8 8

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-04 Thread Doug Smythies
Try changing to the powersave governor. If something else set another pstate request and the intel_pstate driver doesn't know about it, then with the performance governor it might never send a new pstate request. All of this is very similar to a few months ago, on askubuntu and the path of

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-04 Thread Doug Smythies
If the intel_pstate scaling driver is "active" then "powersave" is the default governor. If the driver "passive" or the is the acpi-cpufreq driver during boot, then the default governor will be "ondemand". Note that "active-powersave" is crudely the equivalent of "passive-ondemand". You can

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-03 Thread Doug Smythies
He is using the intel_pstate CPU frequency scaling driver. Now by default processors without HWP will boot into the intel_pstate driver in passive mode (A.K.A. intel_cpufreq). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to thermald in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1215665] Re: With Kernel 3.11RC6 Ubuntu servguide PDF compile crashes

2021-11-14 Thread Doug Smythies
** No longer affects: linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215665 Title: With Kernel 3.11RC6 Ubuntu servguide PDF compile crashes Status in linux package in Ubuntu:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1926938] Re: Recent mainline packages are built with Hirsuite 21.04, not Focal 20.04 LTS

2021-05-31 Thread Doug Smythies
Within the context of this bug report it is valid, as it is specifically about the mainline PPA. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1926938] Re: Recent mainline packages are built with Hirsuite 21.04, not Focal 20.04 LTS

2021-05-22 Thread Doug Smythies
When we try to help people, either here on launchpad or on forums, very often we would like them to try the latest mainline kernel, just as a test to determine if the issue has already been fixed upstream. This bug prevents that useful option for previous Ubuntu versions. This dependency should

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1917813] [NEW] HWP and C1E are incompatible - Intel processors

2021-03-04 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Modern Intel Processors (since Skylake) with HWP (HardWare Pstate) control enabled and Idle State 2, C1E, enabled can incorrectly drop the CPU frequency with an extremely slow recovery time. The fault is not within HWP itself, but within the internal idle detection logic.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
For what it's worth, the versions of things in my test computers, all servers, no GUI: name: serv-ff (a 20.04 VM, that has not had an update since around February 12th): initramfs-tools: 0.133ubuntu14 kmod; 26-3ubuntu1 name: s18 (a physical i5-9600K based computer, up to date as of a few days

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: kmod (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864992 Title: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file()

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
I have a 20.04 VM that I had not run for awhile (Feb 12th). It has kmod version 26-3ubuntu1, and installed mainline kernel 5.6.0-050600rc4-lowlatency fine. The other two physical 20.04 test servers have kmod version 27-1ubuntu1, and both spew the error 5600 times during kernel installation the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1863261 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863261 I don't think this is duplicate either. I agree that this seems to be in the kernel, but don't yet have proof. If I compile the mainline kernel (5.6-rc4) myself i get this error 5600 times (once per

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
Each CPU can have a different request into the PLL (phase locked loop), but the highest one wins, and their vote does not count if they are in an idle state deeper than C1. You can observe this manually by reading the pstate request and granted MSRs directly (requires msr-tools, and the msr module

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
There is only one PLL (Phase Locked Loop) in the processor, all CPUs get the resulting clock. When they go into deep idle states (deeper than C1, at least for my processor) then they give up their vote into the PLL as to what the frequency should be. Your single 100% task is dedicating the CPU

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
@Davide Sangalli: What you describe and show in your comment #80 is correct and exactly what should happen. Your processor is spending an extraordinary amount of time in C1 as opposed to deeper idle states. At what sampling frequency do you run i7z? I would suggest once every 15 seconds or so, so

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 869017] Re: Ubuntu server enables screenblanking, concealing crashdumps (DPMS is not used)

2019-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
Ever since the default changed to never blanking the screen, and after I whined in comment #18 above, I have been running this in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" consoleblank=300 " always save a copy of grub first, and do "sudo update-grub afterwards", then re-boot. -- You

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1844201] Re: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844201 Title: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies Status

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1844201] Re: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
You do not need any logs for this bug report. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844201 Title: turbostat is

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1844201] [NEW] turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: For processors on which it works, turbostat is a very very good diagnostic tool. For many upstream escalations, it is the preferred tool. However the Ubuntu implementation doesn't actually execute turbostat directly, but rather goes to some script with incredibly tight, and

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1817321] Re: installer does not support iSCSI iBFT

2019-09-15 Thread Doug Smythies
the source code for the serverguide is migrating to a different markup language for 20.04. The migration was done a few days before these revisions were committed. They need to be copied to the new source. I am attempting to add "target to series" stuff to this bug report, but it is not working,

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1830961] Re: Kernels & kernel drivers fail to build with gcc-9 [error: ‘-mindirect-branch’ and ‘-fcf-protection’ are not compatible]

2019-07-20 Thread Doug Smythies
Several posters are asking for the mainline builds to be fixed. The mainline builds are an exact reflection of the upstream git master repositories. Therefore they have to wait for Seth's patch submission, which has been picked up and accepted by the kbuild team, to propagate it's way to the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1836373] Re: Mainline builds for 5.1 and 5.2 failing for amd64 and i386

2019-07-12 Thread Doug Smythies
This is duplicate with bug 1830961. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836373 Title: Mainline builds for 5.1 and 5.2 failing for amd64 and i386 Status in linux package in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1830961] Re: Kernels & kernel drivers fail to build with gcc-9 [error: ‘-mindirect-branch’ and ‘-fcf-protection’ are not compatible]

2019-07-10 Thread Doug Smythies
If I make the same changes to the Makefile as per the link in comment #16, then the kernel compiles fine and without the zillions of warnings I mentioned in comment #13. However I can not find this anywhere "upstream" as the notes seem to indicate. doug@serv-ee:~/temp-k-git/linux$ git diff diff

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1794230] Re: failed to load kdump kernel

2018-09-25 Thread Doug Smythies
I get the same on my 16.04 test server. However, things seems to work fine, if I allocate enough memory, on my test 18.04 server VM (which runs on the aforementioned 16.04 test server). My real purpose here is to update the Ubuntu serverguide to deal with bug 1769130. -- You received this bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1768121] Re: Mainline Kernel since 4.16.4 has postinstall script error

2018-05-01 Thread Doug Smythies
Part of this bug report is a duplicate with bug 1766728, and I believe that was fixed as of a couple of hours ago. The other part of this bug report, about needing libssl1.1, isn't fixed, as far as I know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1649905] Re: On boot excessive number of kworker threads are running

2017-07-02 Thread Doug Smythies
@Eric (although you do not seem to have subscribed to this bug report). Your issue is different than what this bug report is/was covering. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 869017] Re: Ubuntu server enables screenblanking, concealing crashdumps (DPMS is not used)

2017-05-17 Thread Doug Smythies
Kernel 4.12-rc1 has this change, so the console now defaults to never going blank. I disagree with this change. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869017 Title: Ubuntu

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1677491] Re: System freeze

2017-04-13 Thread Doug Smythies
@Walter: On our forums exchanges, I missed that your "stuck" messages have "[ksmd:64]" at the end. I get that often also, but I also sometimes get "[qemu-system-x86:8549]" and "[qemu-system-x86:8552]". I do not know what commits may or may not have been migrated back to kernel 4.10. At least for

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1671287] Re: I'm not working with SGI, JFS and QNX4.

2017-04-05 Thread Doug Smythies
For me these messages were a side effect of unattended upgrades, and the os-prober running as some auto-removal thing. All stuff that I do not want, and did not use to be the default. Having either disabled or uninstalled that stuff, I now expect these message to go away. -- You received this

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1671287] Re: I'm not working with SGI, JFS and QNX4.

2017-04-04 Thread Doug Smythies
The correct upstream link is: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194835 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1671287 Title: I'm not working with SGI, JFS and QNX4.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1671287] Re: I'm not working with SGI, JFS and QNX4.

2017-04-04 Thread Doug Smythies
The upstream link is no good, and I haven't been able to find it on bugzilla.kernel.org by searching. It is unclear to me why this bug report was set to incomplete. While I do get the log entries listed herein, I am also using the latest mainline kernel, 4.11-rc5 (but also noticed it for the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2017-03-20 Thread Doug Smythies
@fish : Yes your issue does not belong here. To figure out where your issue actually belongs, some details are missing: If your stuck at low frequency issue only occurs after a suspend and on battery power, then your issue is covered by: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90041 (and it

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1188647] Re: Please change intel_pstate default to disable

2017-02-03 Thread Doug Smythies
@mike: > if you don't think this is the right bug I can open another one or something, This is not the right bug report, and we need to get off it before others start to complain. However, it isn't time to open a new one yet, in my opinion, because we don't yet know what to file it against. >

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1188647] Re: Please change intel_pstate default to disable

2017-02-02 Thread Doug Smythies
@mike : This probably isn't the place to look into your issue. Do you have accounts on askubuntu.com or ubuntuforums.org ? Perhaps the issue could be moved there. There have been issues as the intel_pstate driver has evolved to include control via the methods you are using. What is your processor

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1649905] Re: On boot excessive number of kworker threads are running

2017-01-19 Thread Doug Smythies
I would not expect to see this issue in 16.04, and don't on my test 16.04 server, with the default, up to date, kernel. (Linux s15 4.4.0-59-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 6 17:47:47 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1649905] Re: On boot excessive number of kworker threads are running

2016-12-27 Thread Doug Smythies
I tested kernel 4.10-rc1, and the issue is solved with it. I'm not sure how to test the yakkety proposed kernel, because the instructions seems to be for a desktop computer, and this issue shows up much much more clearly on my server computers. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1649905] Re: On boot excessive number of kworker threads are running

2016-12-14 Thread Doug Smythies
I didn't see the third commit mentioned which I thought was also required: mm: memcontrol: use special workqueue for creating per-memcg caches Anyway, I'll test also, once kernel 4.10-rc1 is ready. The upstream bug report is this one: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991 ** Bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-12-14 Thread Doug Smythies
One of the 3 patches was included in the mainline kernel sometime ago. It fixed SLAB, but not SLUB. The other two patches are now in the mainline kernel and will appear in kernel 4.10-RC1. I'll re-test then. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-10-27 Thread Doug Smythies
> Are you sure SLAB vs. SLUB fixed this? No, it does not fix the issue. However, the issue is more difficult to re-produce. It seems easy enough to reproduce on my test server, but seems to not happen on my test LapTop. There are 3 related upstream commits that fix the issue (at least in my

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-09-28 Thread Doug Smythies
> Doug - you should start a new bug to address your issue as this > one will auto-close as soon as the next kernel is uploaded. I do not understand. This one is not solved, as there two levels of contributing factors. This one should be set back to a status of "In Progress". Once both SLAB and

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-09-27 Thread Doug Smythies
I filed two bug reports upstream: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981 I also made a kernel 4.8-rc8 with 81ae6d03 reverted (because it is so trivial to revert) and no matter how hard I beat on it I can not get it to mess up. **

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-09-26 Thread Doug Smythies
I was working on the assumption that the same commit was causing both the SLAB and the remaining SLUB issues, however it turns out that assumption was incorrect. The commit that causes the SLAB issue is: 801faf0db8947e01877920e848a4d338dd7a99e7 "mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache" The

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-09-24 Thread Doug Smythies
In case anyone is interested: I got this far with the kernel bisection, but can only continue on Tuesday, maybe Monday night. ** Attachment added: "bisection - thus far" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1626564/+attachment/4748136/+files/bla1.txt -- You received this

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-09-24 Thread Doug Smythies
Note: For kernel work, I only use and compile kernels from the main kernel.org git branch. I steal the Ubuntu kernel configuration. The issue of a high number of kworker threads does not exist in kernel 4.6, but does in 4.7-rc1. When using "SLUB" it is a little difficult to detect on my Yakkety

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-09-24 Thread Doug Smythies
>From my experiments, it seems the issue is not 100% solved, but is much much >much less probable. On my Yakkety test Laptop, if I go back to kernel 4.4.0-9136-generic I can not create the high number of kworker threads. If I boot with kernel 4.8.0-16-generic, I can create the high number of

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-09-22 Thread Doug Smythies
I confirm that reverting the SLAB / SLUB changes in the ubuntu kernel configuration file for mainline kernel 4.8-rc7 to the state they were in for mainline kernel 4.7-rc4 fixes the issue (note, I disable debug, because otherwise it takes over twice as long to compile the kernel, and it is

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-09-22 Thread Doug Smythies
This issue was introduced with the massive kernel configurations changes between mainline kernels 4.7-rc4 and 4.7-rc5. While I have been working on it for a couple of weeks, I was never able to isolate the exact kernel configuration change cause. I am compiling a kernel now (4.8-rc7) reverting

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-19 Thread Doug Smythies
@Haw Loeung: In addition to what I wrote earlier: > With the new Ubuntu archive servers, we saw constantly high load > and after some tinkering, we found that it was mostly CPUs > being woken up to see if they should enter idle states. > Changing the CPU frequency scaling governor to

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-19 Thread Doug Smythies
@Haw Loeung: It would be good to understand in more detail your findings. As far as I know (and I am not an expert in this area), great care has been taken to avoid things like wakeups just to decide to go idle. I did a test on my computer (Ubuntu 16.04 server, no GUI), but to avoid extra

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-17 Thread Doug Smythies
The table formatting got messed up, trying again: Load: idle0.5XX 2X 3X 4X 5X 100% powersave 570811037 16075 29147 45913 61165 76650 81695 3.817.3610.72 19.43 30.61 40.78 51.10 54.46 performance

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-17 Thread Doug Smythies
Using kernel 4.8-rc5 I did some energy tests, using a SpecPower simulator that I made one time. I reused intel_pstate powersave data from a previous test. Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=147326197513427=2 Big numbers are Joules (package Joules from turbostat) Smaller numbers are

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
>> The preferred governor with the intel_pstate driver is powersave. > Do you have some references/proof for that? This is contrary to what > kernel developers say, see comment 1. In my opinion, that reference is obsolete. While I don't work for Intel, the intel_pstate CPU frequency driver is

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
What has been done here is incorrect. The old "ondemand" script was modified so that if the intel_pstate driver was being used, and therefore "ondemand" did not exist, it would fall through to setting the "powersave" governor (refer to bug #1314643). Note that "powersave" with the intel_pstate

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584]

2016-04-02 Thread Doug Smythies
This issue no longer occurs on my computer. The a fresh install on linux was done, and now the system is using systemd whereas previously it was not. I am not certain systemd is the difference, it is just my best guess. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584]

2016-02-27 Thread Doug Smythies
Yes, the bug persists through kernel 4.4. Having isolated the issue down to the exact causal commit, I do not know what else I can do to move this one along. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1534647] Re: Collateral damage due to kernel configuration change enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE (Kernel 4.4 amd64)

2016-02-02 Thread Doug Smythies
> Upstream is discussing a fix that might allow both configurations @Tim, could you point us to the upstream discussion? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534647 Title:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1534647] Re: Collateral damage due to kernel configuration change enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE (Kernel 4.4 amd64)

2016-02-02 Thread Doug Smythies
I found this: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/25/1233 and this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110931 ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #110931 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110931 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1534647] Re: Collateral damage due to kernel configuration change enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE (Kernel 4.4 amd64)

2016-01-15 Thread Doug Smythies
No, apport-collect 1534647 is not needed for this bug report. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534647

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1534647] [NEW] Collateral damage due to kernel configuration change enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE (Kernel 4.4 amd64)

2016-01-15 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Late in the kernel 4.4 RC (Release Candidate) cycle (between rc7 and rc8), Ubuntu implemented an amd64 kernel configuration change enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE. The related email: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel- team/2016-January/067683.html The commit message does

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1534647] Re: Collateral damage due to kernel configuration change enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE (Kernel 4.4 amd64)

2016-01-15 Thread Doug Smythies
** Description changed: Late in the kernel 4.4 RC (Release Candidate) cycle (between rc7 and rc8), Ubuntu implemented an amd64 kernel configuration change enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE. The related email: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel- team/2016-January/067683.html - The

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584]

2016-01-09 Thread Doug Smythies
This issue persists though kernel 4.4-rc8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1504584 Title: As of kernel 4.3-rc1 system will not stay in S3 suspend Status in Linux:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584]

2015-10-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Additional information: After a fresh boot with the bad kernel, turbostat shows: Pkg%pc6 = 97.84%; PkgWatt 4.01; CorWatt 0.28; GFXWatt 0.23. Then after the first suspend resume, turbostat shows: Pkg%pc6 = 0.00%; PkgWatt 10.08; CorWatt 3.04; GFXWatt 3.51. PkgTmp goes up by more than 10 degrees.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584]

2015-10-14 Thread Doug Smythies
Created attachment 118873 requested dmesg with drm.debug=14 Possibly relevant excerpt: [ 399.518389] [drm] stuck on render ring [ 399.518686] [drm] GPU HANG: ecode 6:0:0xfeff, reason: Ring hung, action: reset [ 399.518686] [drm] GPU hangs can indicate a bug anywhere in the entire gfx

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584]

2015-10-14 Thread Doug Smythies
(In reply to Jani Nikula from comment #6) > Did you double check the bisect by running both dc4be6071a24 and > dc4be6071a24^ ? Yes, of course, and I said so in my initial e-mail. Truth be known, this was my second bisection, as I must have made a mistake in my first attempt, because the double

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584]

2015-10-14 Thread Doug Smythies
(In reply to Jani Nikula from comment #8) > First, run dc4be6071a24 and try suspend/resume > several times, and see if it's 100% reproducible or not. Yes, it happens every time. To say 100%, I would have to have a sample space of about 1000 attempts. I did not do that many. -- You received this

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584]

2015-10-14 Thread Doug Smythies
Created attachment 118874 an edited version of the file the previous attachment asked for I edited just to remove many lines of 0's. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1504584

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1497520] Re: Slow performance after resuming from/on battery (CPUs do not scale above 800MHz) with intel_pstate

2015-10-12 Thread Doug Smythies
For your Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz processor, what is the normal minimum pstate? I ask because I have only seen on battery power resume from suspend issues that are related to Clock Modulation becoming enabled. i.e. I am wondering if 800MHz is a normal minimum frequency or below the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584] Re: As of kernel 4.3-rc1 system will not stay in S3 suspend

2015-10-12 Thread Doug Smythies
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #92414 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92414 ** Also affects: linux via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92414 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584] Re: As of kernel 4.3-rc1 system will not stay in S3 suspend

2015-10-09 Thread Doug Smythies
You don't need the logs. I already figured out the root issue, and already submitted it upstream. apport-collect has never worked for me. setting to "Triaged' ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1504584] [NEW] As of kernel 4.3-rc1 system will not stay in S3 suspend

2015-10-09 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Note: this bug report is just for local tracking of an upstream issue: Reference: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2015-October/077592.html also copied below: This started somewhere between Kernel 4.2 and 4.3-rc1, but I only noticed it a day ago. The first

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1497520] Re: Slow performance after resuming from/on battery (CPUs do not scale above 800MHz)

2015-09-25 Thread Doug Smythies
To the best of my knowledge, this specific (resume from suspend, intel_pstate, performance mode) issue has been fixed in the upstream kernel. However, I never understood this issue to be specific to battery mode, an interesting twist. Note that there are other issues, and sometimes it is hard to

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1477171] Re: Enable intel_pstate by default on Trusty EC2 AMIs

2015-09-25 Thread Doug Smythies
Isn't there another issue within this bug report? Why doesn't the acpi- cpufreq frequency scaling driver support the higher available clock frequencies? Actually, maybe it does. Observe processor 3 from the cpuinfo listing: processor : 3 ... cpu MHz : 2901.000 It is in turbo mode.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1188647] Re: Please change intel_pstate default to disable

2015-09-17 Thread Doug Smythies
@Phillip: I would like to get to the root of your issue, but I don't know that this is the place to do it. What is your processor? Mine is: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz What kernel version do you run? I am running 4.3RC1 with a modified intel_pstate driver. If I start a CPU burning

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1188647] Re: Please change intel_pstate default to disable

2015-09-17 Thread Doug Smythies
@Phillip: By the way, for the previous tests, I didn't go back to a stock kernel because I knew it wouldn't make any difference. However, you would be correct to challenge that assertion, so I re-did everything with my stock kernel: Linux s15 3.16.0-49-generic #65~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 9

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1188647] Re: Please change intel_pstate default to disable

2015-09-11 Thread Doug Smythies
@Phillip: Tell us more about what you trying to do and how you are doing it. I assert that the "control knobs" work fine, however, I only use primitives to control it and never any higher level tool. For example, I would limit the maximum CPU frequency to 0.75 of maximum with: echo "75" | sudo

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1484587] Re: CPU frequency management fails to re-engage on resume from suspend

2015-09-06 Thread Doug Smythies
, just use primitive commands and not these higher level utilities (that I neither use or know anything about). For example use: grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo to observe CPU frequencies. The commit that, I think, fixes this issue is: commit 6c1e45917dec5e7c99ba8125fd8cc50f6e482a21 Author: Doug Smythies

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1188647] Re: Please change intel_pstate default to disable

2015-08-27 Thread Doug Smythies
@Colin: I am not sure who you are asking to see if these help. For my part of it, I pretty much only use the most recent RC kernel (well I am still on 4.2RC6), and pretty much only with a version if the intel_pstate driver that includes a proposed patch set that I submitted on 2015.04.11, but

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1462822] Re: Kernel configuration parameter CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set, it should be

2015-06-24 Thread Doug Smythies
The kernel configuration is O.K. with respect to this issue as of kernel 4.1, and dmidecode works. Thanks. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1462822] Re: Kernel configuration parameter CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set, it should be

2015-06-07 Thread Doug Smythies
** Description changed: There is a relatively new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_DEVMEM. - I do not understand why, but for some reason is not set for Ubuntu, and therefore dmidecode does not work. + I do not understand why, but for some reason is not set for Ubuntu, and therefore

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1462822] [NEW] Kernel configuration parameter CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set, it should be

2015-06-07 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: There is a relatively new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_DEVMEM. I do not understand why, but for some reason is not set for Ubuntu, and therefore dmidecode does not work. I think that, in general, we want dmidecode to work. I found this:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1462822] Re: Kernel configuration parameter CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set, it should be

2015-06-07 Thread Doug Smythies
You do not need the apport stuff for this bug report, it is not relevant. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1452460] Re: Turbo mode on i7 is not enabled upon resume

2015-05-13 Thread Doug Smythies
see also: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90421 particularly the entries from Marien. This issue does not manifest the same for all i7 processors. ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #90421 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90421 -- You received this bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1421793] Re: intel_pstate is always reported to be set to 'performance'

2015-02-14 Thread Doug Smythies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1411802 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1411802 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1411802 powersave governor should be listed as one possible value for the ondemand init.d script -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1421793] Re: intel_pstate is always reported to be set to 'performance'

2015-02-14 Thread Doug Smythies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1314653 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314653 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1411802 powersave governor should be listed as one possible value for the ondemand init.d script ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1314653

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1413149] Re: rtsx_usb_ms: system load immediately climbs, and stays above 1.00

2015-01-22 Thread Doug Smythies
I reviewed the Ubuntu kernel team e-mail thread. I do not understand why the bug patch submitted upstream on November 6th seems to have stalled. I did observe that there wasn't an ACK, that I could find. So I wondered of the patch had been modified or another solution was found. Is there any way

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1397061] Re: CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT default changed preventing use of IO schedulers

2014-11-28 Thread Doug Smythies
Thanks for your rapid attention on this one. Just for completeness, I want to expand on this statement from the description: my system does seem to benefit from blk-mq That is, unless the IO load is high. With very high disk IO load, things fall apart. For example I had a single disk seek time

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