Why does some systems on RHEL8.5 show “intel_cpufreq“ as scaling driver instead of “intel_pstate“ in the output of “cpupower frequency-info“?
Issue
- Why does some systems on RHEL8.5 show intel_cpufreq as scaling driver instead of intel_pstate in the output of cpupower frequency-info?
- When system is booted with RHEL8.4, intel_pstate gets loaded, while when same system booted with RHEL8.5 kernel, intel_cpufreq driver is seen to be loaded.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: intel_cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
maximum transition latency: 20.0 us
hardware limits: 1.20 GHz - 3.00 GHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance
current policy: frequency should be within 3.00 GHz and 3.00 GHz.
The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
current CPU frequency: 2.30 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
boost state support:
Supported: yes
Active: yes
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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