Linux and Turbo Boost

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Hi

I understand that Linux as an OS is excellent at load balancing and will use all cores & threads instead of just one core or thread. However, a technician told me the other day that the Linux kernel is not good at / incapable of activating turbo boost on Intel CPU's. Honestly, I found it a little strange but tried to Google it and got no results via DuckDuckGo.

My assumption is that the Linux kernel and/or modern distro's usually are up to date with most hardware out there and also that I see on even old laptops that 'speedstep' does work.

Any shared intelligence from anyone, what is the truth?
 
Speed Step and Turbo Boost has been supported in the Linux kernel for a while, and Intel's contributions to the kernel have resulted in significant power savings because they implemented it well, though installing TLP brings more power management savings above what Intel already does. What doesn't currently work is Speed Shift on Skylake platforms, and that's going to be supported eventually.
 
SamsungHell said:
Hi

I understand that Linux as an OS is excellent at load balancing and will use all cores & threads instead of just one core or thread. However, a technician told me the other day that the Linux kernel is not good at / incapable of activating turbo boost on Intel CPU's. Honestly, I found it a little strange but tried to Google it and got no results via DuckDuckGo.

My assumption is that the Linux kernel and/or modern distro's usually are up to date with most hardware out there and also that I see on even old laptops that 'speedstep' does work.

Any shared intelligence from anyone, what is the truth?
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I think the tech you spoke you heard someone talk about the broadwell cockup and now assumed speedstep does not work on linux at all.

Intel dropped the ball with broadwell, it does not like linux at all and the only way around it is to disable speedstep.
I couldn't get any flavor of ubuntu stable on my 5675c, some wouldn't even install. I sold the cpu eventualy.
 
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SamsungHell said:
Hi

I understand that Linux as an OS is excellent at load balancing and will use all cores & threads instead of just one core or thread. However, a technician told me the other day that the Linux kernel is not good at / incapable of activating turbo boost on Intel CPU's. Honestly, I found it a little strange but tried to Google it and got no results via DuckDuckGo.

My assumption is that the Linux kernel and/or modern distro's usually are up to date with most hardware out there and also that I see on even old laptops that 'speedstep' does work.

Any shared intelligence from anyone, what is the truth?
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You Googled it via duckduckgo.. Wtf?
 
Thor187 said:
You Googled it via duckduckgo.. Wtf?
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DuckDuckGo is reckoned as a good alternative to google for those that don't like it when big companies keep track of what they search for online then shove adverts down their throat at every opportunity.
 
ODTech said:
DuckDuckGo is reckoned as a good alternative to google for those that don't like it when big companies keep track of what they search for online then shove adverts down their throat at every opportunity.
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I don't think anyone is even bothered about that. Rather say he searched for it on duckduckgo, or he duckduckgoed it. You dont google using duckduckgo, thats what google is for
 
ODTech said:
DuckDuckGo is reckoned as a good alternative to google for those that don't like it when big companies keep track of what they search for online then shove adverts down their throat at every opportunity.
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imranpanji said:
I don't think anyone is even bothered about that. Rather say he searched for it on duckduckgo, or he duckduckgoed it. You dont google using duckduckgo, thats what google is for
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