The value freq_max/freq_base is a fundamental component of frequency
invariance calculations. It may come from a variety of sources such as MSRs
or ACPI data, tracking it down when troubleshooting a system could be
non-trivial. It is worth saving it in the kernel logs.
# dmesg | grep 'Estimated ratio of average max'
[ 14.024036] smpboot: Estimated ratio of average max frequency by base frequency (times 1024): 1289
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 5a8b941e79fe..2f04c98dcbff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -2110,6 +2110,7 @@ static void init_freq_invariance(bool secondary, bool cppc_ready)
if (ret) {
init_counter_refs();
static_branch_enable(&arch_scale_freq_key);
+ pr_info("Estimated ratio of average max frequency by base frequency (times 1024): %llu\n", arch_max_freq_ratio);
} else {
pr_debug("Couldn't determine max cpu frequency, necessary for scale-invariant accounting.\n");
}
--
2.26.2