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  • Monitoring CPU Sleep States

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    Hi,
    With a "normal" Linux node, I can use

    or
    turbostat
    to monitor sleep states and other metrics to understand some deeper CPU performance characteristics.

    I believe I can use the Node Tuning Operator to configure node-level parameters such as which sleep states a CPU is allowed to enter, etc. However, I can't find any information about how to monitor which sleep states a CPU is or has been in. Is this possible, short of loading cpupower/turbostat onto a CoreOS node via MachineConfig and doing something a bit more hacky?

    I've tried running cpupower and turbostat on my OpenShift nodes, but neither are installed by default.

    I can see certain sleep state configuration, but can't see how to monitor it natively.

    $ cat /sys/module/intel_idle/parameters/max_cstate
    9
    $ for state in state{0..3} ; do echo c-$state `cat $state/name` `cat $state/latency` ; done
    c-state0 POLL 0
    c-state1 C1 2
    c-state2 C1E 10
    c-state3 C6 133
    

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