Bug 12471

Summary: amd e-350 cpu never runs at full speed
Product: Mageia Reporter: Drew Edwards <drew>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal CC: thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: kernel-desktop-3.12.8-2.mga4 CVE:
Status comment:

Description Drew Edwards 2014-01-29 04:33:40 CET
Description of problem:

Laptop seemed slow, I saw that frequency was stable at 1.28 GHz.  It never gets to top speed of 1.6G regardless of cpu load or governor.  Not certain if this report should be filed against kernel or other package?

I did not experience this problem with mageia 3.

Output from cpufreq frequency-info:


cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.60 GHz
  available frequency steps: 1.60 GHz, 1.28 GHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: ondemand, userspace, performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.28 GHz.
                  The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.28 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).
  boost state support:
    Supported: no
    Active: no


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.12.8-2.mga4



Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Drew Edwards 2014-01-29 04:45:03 CET
Well this is baffling.  I rebooted and it seems to be behaving properly now.  NO updates were installed, so I have no explanation for this
Comment 2 Drew Edwards 2014-01-29 04:46:14 CET
After rebooting I see this:

cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.60 GHz
  available frequency steps: 1.60 GHz, 1.28 GHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: ondemand, userspace, performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.60 GHz.
                  The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.60 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).
  boost state support:
    Supported: no
    Active: no
Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-30 19:14:03 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud, tmb

Comment 3 Drew Edwards 2014-01-31 04:20:08 CET
I cannot reproduce this.  I thought perhaps I had accidentally booted ito a previous kernel version, but I tried that and still did not see the problem.

So, I guess it is pointless to keep this bug report open?
Comment 4 Drew Edwards 2014-02-01 04:14:54 CET
Cannot duplicate the problem.  Closing ticket.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME