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TURBOSTAT(8)		     System Manager's Manual		    TURBOSTAT(8)

NAME
     turbostat - Report processor frequency and idle statistics

SYNOPSIS
     turbostat [Options] command
     turbostat [Options] [--interval seconds]

DESCRIPTION
     turbostat	 reports processor topology, frequency, idle power-state statis-
     tics, temperature and power on X86 processors.  There are two ways  to  in-
     voke  turbostat.	The first method is to supply a command, which is forked
     and statistics are printed in one-shot upon  its  completion.   The  second
     method  is  to  omit the command, and turbostat displays statistics every 5
     seconds interval.	The 5-second interval can be changed using the	--inter-
     val option.

     Some information is not available on older processors.

   Options
     Options  can  be specified with a single or double '-', and only as much of
     the option name as necessary to disambiguate it from others  is  necessary.
     Note that options are case-sensitive.

     --add  attributes	add  column  with counter having specified 'attributes'.
     The 'location' attribute is required, all others are optional.
	  location: {msrDDD | msr0xXXX | /sys/path...}
	       msrDDD is a decimal offset, eg. msr16
	       msr0xXXX is a hex offset, eg. msr0x10
	       /sys/path... is an absolute path to a sysfs attribute

	  scope: {cpu | core | package}
	       sample and print the counter for every cpu, core, or package.
	       default: cpu

	  size: {u32 | u64 }
	       MSRs are read as 64-bits, u32 truncates the displayed value to 32-bits.
	       default: u64

	  format: {raw | delta | percent}
	       'raw' shows the MSR contents in hex.
	       'delta' shows the difference in values during the measurement interval.
	       'percent' shows the delta as a percentage of the cycles elapsed.
	       default: delta

	  name: "name_string"
	       Any string that does not match a key-word above is used
	       as the column header.

     --cpu cpu-set limit output to system summary plus	the  specified	cpu-set.
     If cpu-set is the string "core", then the system summary plus the first CPU
     in each core are printed -- eg. subsequent HT siblings are not printed.  Or
     if  cpu-set is the string "package", then the system summary plus the first
     CPU in each package is printed.  Otherwise, the  system  summary  plus  the
     specified	set  of  CPUs  are  printed.  The cpu-set is ordered from low to
     high, comma delimited with ".." and "-" permitted to denote  a  range.  eg.
     1,2,8,14..17,21-44

     --hide  column  do not show the specified columns.  May be invoked multiple
     times, or with a comma-separated list of column names.  Use "--hide  sysfs"
     to hide the sysfs statistics columns as a group.

     --show  column  show  only  the specified columns.  May be invoked multiple
     times, or with a comma-separated list of column names.  Use "--show  sysfs"
     to show the sysfs statistics columns as a group.

     --Dump displays the raw counter values.

     --quiet  Do  not  decode and print the system configuration header informa-
     tion.

     --interval seconds overrides the default 5.0 second measurement interval.

     --out output_file turbostat output is written to the specified output_file.
     The file is truncated if it already exists, and it is created  if	it  does
     not exist.

     --help displays usage for the most common parameters.

     --Joules  displays energy in Joules, rather than dividing Joules by time to
     print power in Watts.

     --list display column header names available for use by --show and  --hide,
     then exit.

     --Summary limits output to a 1-line System Summary for each interval.

     --TCC  temperature sets the Thermal Control Circuit temperature for systems
     which do not export that value.  This is used for making sense of the Digi-
     tal Thermal Sensor outputs, as they return degrees Celsius  below	the  TCC
     activation temperature.

     --version displays the version.

     The  command  parameter forks command, and upon its exit, displays the sta-
     tistics gathered since it was forked.

ROW DESCRIPTIONS
     The system configuration dump (if --quiet is not used) is followed by  sta-
     tistics.  The first row of the statistics labels the content of each column
     (below).	The  second  row  of statistics is the system summary line.  The
     system summary line has a '-' in the columns for  the  Package,  Core,  and
     CPU.   The  contents of the system summary line depends on the type of col-
     umn.  Columns that count items (eg. IRQ) show the sum across  all	CPUs  in
     the  system.   Columns  that  show a percentage show the average across all
     CPUs in the system.  Columns that dump raw MSR values simply show 0 in  the
     summary.  After the system summary row, each row describes a specific Pack-
     age/Core/CPU.  Note that if the --cpu parameter is used to limit which spe-
     cific  CPUs  are displayed, turbostat will still collect statistics for all
     CPUs in the system and will still show the system summary for all	CPUs  in
     the system.

COLUMN DESCRIPTIONS
     Core processor core number.  Note that multiple CPUs per core indicate support for Intel(R) Hyper-Threading Technology (HT).
     CPU Linux CPU (logical processor) number.	Yes, it is okay that on many systems the CPUs are not listed in numerical order -- for efficiency reasons, turbostat runs in topology order, so HT siblings appear together.
     Package processor package number -- not present on systems with a single processor package.
     Avg_MHz number of cycles executed divided by time elapsed.  Note that this includes idle-time when 0 instructions are executed.
     Busy% percent of the measurement interval that the CPU executes instructions, aka. % of time in "C0" state.
     Bzy_MHz average clock rate while the CPU was not idle (ie. in "c0" state).
     TSC_MHz average MHz that the TSC ran during the entire interval.
     IRQ The number of interrupts serviced by that CPU during the measurement interval.  The system total line is the sum of interrupts serviced across all CPUs.  turbostat parses /proc/interrupts to generate this summary.
     SMI The number of System Management Interrupts  serviced CPU during the measurement interval.  While this counter is actually per-CPU, SMI are triggered on all processors, so the number should be the same for all CPUs.
     C1, C2, C3... The number times Linux requested the C1, C2, C3 idle state during the measurement interval.	The system summary line shows the sum for all CPUs.  These are C-state names as exported in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpuidle/state*/name.  While their names are generic, their attributes are processor specific. They the system description section of output shows what MWAIT sub-states they are mapped to on each system.
     C1%, C2%, C3% The residency percentage that Linux requested C1, C2, C3....  The system summary is the average of all CPUs in the system.  Note that these are software, reflecting what was requested.  The hardware counters reflect what was actually achieved.
     CPU%c1, CPU%c3, CPU%c6, CPU%c7 show the percentage residency in hardware core idle states.  These numbers are from hardware residency counters.
     CoreTmp Degrees Celsius reported by the per-core Digital Thermal Sensor.
     PkgTtmp Degrees Celsius reported by the per-package Package Thermal Monitor.
     GFX%rc6 The percentage of time the GPU is in the "render C6" state, rc6, during the measurement interval. From /sys/class/drm/card0/power/rc6_residency_ms.
     GFXMHz Instantaneous snapshot of what sysfs presents at the end of the measurement interval. From /sys/class/graphics/fb0/device/drm/card0/gt_cur_freq_mhz.
     Pkg%pc2, Pkg%pc3, Pkg%pc6, Pkg%pc7 percentage residency in hardware package idle states.  These numbers are from hardware residency counters.
     PkgWatt Watts consumed by the whole package.
     CorWatt Watts consumed by the core part of the package.
     GFXWatt Watts consumed by the Graphics part of the package -- available only on client processors.
     RAMWatt Watts consumed by the DRAM DIMMS -- available only on server processors.
     PKG_% percent of the interval that RAPL throttling was active on the Package.
     RAM_% percent of the interval that RAPL throttling was active on DRAM.

TOO MUCH INFORMATION EXAMPLE
     By default, turbostat dumps all possible information -- a system configura-
     tion  header,  followed by columns for all counters.  This is ideal for re-
     mote debugging, use the "--out" option to save everything to a  text  file,
     and get that file to the expert helping you debug.

     When  you are not interested in all that information, and there are several
     ways to see only what you want.  First the "--quiet" option will  skip  the
     configuration  information,  and  turbostat  will	show  only  the  counter
     columns.  Second, you can reduce the columns with the "--hide" and "--show"
     options.  If you use the "--show" option, then turbostat will show only the
     columns you list.	If you use the "--hide" option, turbostat will show  all
     columns, except the ones you list.

     To  find out what columns are available for --show and --hide, the "--list"
     option is available.  For convenience, the special strings "sysfs"  can  be
     used to refer to all of the sysfs C-state counters at once:
     sudo ./turbostat --show sysfs --quiet sleep 10
     10.003837 sec
	  C1   C1E  C3	 C6   C7s  C1%	C1E% C3%  C6%  C7s%
	  4    21   2	 2    459  0.14 0.82 0.00 0.00 98.93
	  1    17   2	 2    130  0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 99.80
	  0    0    0	 0    31   0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.95
	  2    1    0	 0    52   1.14 6.49 0.00 0.00 92.21
	  1    2    0	 0    52   0.00 0.08 0.00 0.00 99.86
	  0    0    0	 0    71   0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.89
	  0    0    0	 0    25   0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.96
	  0    0    0	 0    74   0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.94
	  0    1    0	 0    24   0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.84

ONE SHOT COMMAND EXAMPLE
     If  turbostat is invoked with a command, it will fork that command and out-
     put the statistics gathered after the command exits.  In this case,  turbo-
     stat  output  goes to stderr, by default.	Output can instead be saved to a
     file using the --out option.  In this example, the "sleep	10"  command  is
     forked, and turbostat waits for it to complete before saving all statistics
     into  "ts.out".  Note that "sleep 10" is not part of turbostat, but is sim-
     ply an example of a command that turbostat can fork.  The "ts.out" file  is
     what  you	want to edit in a very wide window, paste into a spreadsheet, or
     attach to a bugzilla entry.

     [root@hsw]# ./turbostat -o ts.out sleep 10
     [root@hsw]#

PERIODIC INTERVAL EXAMPLE
     Without a command to fork, turbostat displays statistics  ever  5	seconds.
     Periodic output goes to stdout, by default, unless --out is used to specify
     an output file.  The 5-second interval can be changed with the "-i sec" op-
     tion.
     sudo ./turbostat --quiet --hide sysfs,IRQ,SMI,CoreTmp,PkgTmp,GFX%rc6,GFXMHz,PkgWatt,CorWatt,GFXWatt
	  Core CPU  Avg_MHz   Busy%	Bzy_MHz   TSC_MHz   CPU%c1    CPU%c3	CPU%c6	  CPU%c7
	  -    -    488  12.52	   3900 3498 12.50     0.00 0.00 74.98
	  0    0    5	 0.13 3900 3498 99.87	  0.00 0.00 0.00
	  0    4    3897 99.99	   3900 3498 0.01
	  1    1    0	 0.00 3856 3498 0.01 0.00 0.00 99.98
	  1    5    0	 0.00 3861 3498 0.01
	  2    2    1	 0.02 3889 3498 0.03 0.00 0.00 99.95
	  2    6    0	 0.00 3863 3498 0.05
	  3    3    0	 0.01 3869 3498 0.02 0.00 0.00 99.97
	  3    7    0	 0.00 3878 3498 0.03
	  Core CPU  Avg_MHz   Busy%	Bzy_MHz   TSC_MHz   CPU%c1    CPU%c3	CPU%c6	  CPU%c7
	  -    -    491  12.59	   3900 3498 12.42     0.00 0.00 74.99
	  0    0    27	 0.69 3900 3498 99.31	  0.00 0.00 0.00
	  0    4    3898 99.99	   3900 3498 0.01
	  1    1    0	 0.00 3883 3498 0.01 0.00 0.00 99.99
	  1    5    0	 0.00 3898 3498 0.01
	  2    2    0	 0.01 3889 3498 0.02 0.00 0.00 99.98
	  2    6    0	 0.00 3889 3498 0.02
	  3    3    0	 0.00 3856 3498 0.01 0.00 0.00 99.99
	  3    7    0	 0.00 3897 3498 0.01
     This  example  also shows the use of the --hide option to skip columns that
     are not wanted.  Note that cpu4 in this example is 99.99% busy,  while  the
     other  CPUs  are all under 1% busy.  Notice that cpu4's HT sibling is cpu0,
     which is under 1% busy, but can get into CPU%c1 only,  because  its  cpu4's
     activity on shared hardware keeps it from entering a deeper C-state.

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION EXAMPLE
     By  default, turbostat always dumps system configuration information before
     taking measurements.  In the example above, "--quiet" is used  to	suppress
     that output.  Here is an example of the configuration information:
     turbostat version 2017.02.15 - Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
     CPUID(0): GenuineIntel 13 CPUID levels; family:model:stepping 0x6:3c:3 (6:60:3)
     CPUID(1): SSE3 MONITOR - EIST TM2 TSC MSR ACPI-TM TM
     CPUID(6): APERF, TURBO, DTS, PTM, No-HWP, No-HWPnotify, No-HWPwindow, No-HWPepp, No-HWPpkg, EPB
     cpu4: MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE: 0x00850089 (TCC EIST No-MWAIT PREFETCH TURBO)
     CPUID(7): No-SGX
     cpu4: MSR_MISC_PWR_MGMT: 0x00400000 (ENable-EIST_Coordination DISable-EPB DISable-OOB)
     RAPL: 3121 sec. Joule Counter Range, at 84 Watts
     cpu4: MSR_PLATFORM_INFO: 0x80838f3012300
     8 * 100.0 = 800.0 MHz max efficiency frequency
     35 * 100.0 = 3500.0 MHz base frequency
     cpu4: MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL: 0x0004005d (C1E auto-promotion: DISabled)
     cpu4: MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT: 0x25262727
     37 * 100.0 = 3700.0 MHz max turbo 4 active cores
     38 * 100.0 = 3800.0 MHz max turbo 3 active cores
     39 * 100.0 = 3900.0 MHz max turbo 2 active cores
     39 * 100.0 = 3900.0 MHz max turbo 1 active cores
     cpu4: MSR_CONFIG_TDP_NOMINAL: 0x00000023 (base_ratio=35)
     cpu4: MSR_CONFIG_TDP_LEVEL_1: 0x00000000 ()
     cpu4: MSR_CONFIG_TDP_LEVEL_2: 0x00000000 ()
     cpu4: MSR_CONFIG_TDP_CONTROL: 0x80000000 ( lock=1)
     cpu4: MSR_TURBO_ACTIVATION_RATIO: 0x00000000 (MAX_NON_TURBO_RATIO=0 lock=0)
     cpu4: MSR_PKG_CST_CONFIG_CONTROL: 0x1e000400 (UNdemote-C3, UNdemote-C1, demote-C3, demote-C1, UNlocked: pkg-cstate-limit=0: pc0)
     cpu4: POLL: CPUIDLE CORE POLL IDLE
     cpu4: C1: MWAIT 0x00
     cpu4: C1E: MWAIT 0x01
     cpu4: C3: MWAIT 0x10
     cpu4: C6: MWAIT 0x20
     cpu4: C7s: MWAIT 0x32
     cpu4: MSR_MISC_FEATURE_CONTROL: 0x00000000 (L2-Prefetch L2-Prefetch-pair L1-Prefetch L1-IP-Prefetch)
     cpu0: MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: 0x00000006 (balanced)
     cpu0: MSR_CORE_PERF_LIMIT_REASONS, 0x31200000 (Active: ) (Logged: Transitions, MultiCoreTurbo, Amps, Auto-HWP, )
     cpu0: MSR_GFX_PERF_LIMIT_REASONS, 0x00000000 (Active: ) (Logged: )
     cpu0: MSR_RING_PERF_LIMIT_REASONS, 0x0d000000 (Active: ) (Logged: Amps, PkgPwrL1, PkgPwrL2, )
     cpu0: MSR_RAPL_POWER_UNIT: 0x000a0e03 (0.125000 Watts, 0.000061 Joules, 0.000977 sec.)
     cpu0: MSR_PKG_POWER_INFO: 0x000002a0 (84 W TDP, RAPL 0 - 0 W, 0.000000 sec.)
     cpu0: MSR_PKG_POWER_LIMIT: 0x428348001a82a0 (UNlocked)
     cpu0: PKG Limit #1: ENabled (84.000000 Watts, 8.000000 sec, clamp DISabled)
     cpu0: PKG Limit #2: ENabled (105.000000 Watts, 0.002441* sec, clamp DISabled)
     cpu0: MSR_PP0_POLICY: 0
     cpu0: MSR_PP0_POWER_LIMIT: 0x00000000 (UNlocked)
     cpu0: Cores Limit: DISabled (0.000000 Watts, 0.000977 sec, clamp DISabled)
     cpu0: MSR_PP1_POLICY: 0
     cpu0: MSR_PP1_POWER_LIMIT: 0x00000000 (UNlocked)
     cpu0: GFX Limit: DISabled (0.000000 Watts, 0.000977 sec, clamp DISabled)
     cpu0: MSR_IA32_TEMPERATURE_TARGET: 0x00641400 (100 C)
     cpu0: MSR_IA32_PACKAGE_THERM_STATUS: 0x884c0800 (24 C)
     cpu0: MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS: 0x884c0000 (24 C +/- 1)
     cpu1: MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS: 0x88510000 (19 C +/- 1)
     cpu2: MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS: 0x884e0000 (22 C +/- 1)
     cpu3: MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS: 0x88510000 (19 C +/- 1)
     cpu4: MSR_PKGC3_IRTL: 0x00008842 (valid, 67584 ns)
     cpu4: MSR_PKGC6_IRTL: 0x00008873 (valid, 117760 ns)
     cpu4: MSR_PKGC7_IRTL: 0x00008891 (valid, 148480 ns)
     The  max  efficiency frequency, a.k.a. Low Frequency Mode, is the frequency
     available at the minimum package voltage.	The TSC frequency  is  the  base
     frequency	of  the  processor  --	this  should  match  the brand string in
     /proc/cpuinfo.  This base frequency should be sustainable on all  CPUs  in-
     definitely,  given nominal power and cooling.  The remaining rows show what
     maximum turbo frequency is possible depending on the number of idle  cores.
     Note that not all information is available on all processors.

ADD COUNTER EXAMPLE
     Here we limit turbostat to showing just the CPU number for cpu0 - cpu3.  We
     add   a   counter	 showing   the	 32-bit   raw	value	of   MSR   0x199
     (MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL), labeling it with the column  header,	"PRF_CTRL",  and
     display it only once, afte the conclusion of a 0.1 second sleep.
     sudo ./turbostat --quiet --cpu 0-3 --show CPU --add msr0x199,u32,raw,PRF_CTRL sleep .1
     0.101604 sec
     CPU    PRF_CTRL
     -	  0x00000000
     0	  0x00000c00
     1	  0x00000800
     2	  0x00000a00
     3	  0x00000800

NOTES
     turbostat	must  be  run as root.	Alternatively, non-root users can be en-
     abled to run turbostat this way:

     # setcap cap_sys_rawio=ep ./turbostat

     # chmod +r /dev/cpu/*/msr

     turbostat reads hardware counters, but doesn't write them.  So it will  not
     interfere	with the OS or other programs, including multiple invocations of
     itself.

     turbostat may work poorly on Linux-2.6.20 through 2.6.29,	as  acpi-cpufreq
     periodically cleared the APERF and MPERF MSRs in those kernels.

     AVG_MHz  =  APERF_delta/measurement_interval.  This is the actual number of
     elapsed cycles divided by the entire  sample  interval  --  including  idle
     time.   Note  that  this calculation is resilient to systems lacking a non-
     stop TSC.

     TSC_MHz = TSC_delta/measurement_interval.	On a system  with  an  invariant
     TSC,  this value will be constant and will closely match the base frequency
     value shown in the brand string in /proc/cpuinfo.	On a  system  where  the
     TSC stops in idle, TSC_MHz will drop below the processor's base frequency.

     Busy% = MPERF_delta/TSC_delta

     Bzy_MHz = TSC_delta/APERF_delta/MPERF_delta/measurement_interval

     Note  that these calculations depend on TSC_delta, so they are not reliable
     during intervals when TSC_MHz is not running at the base frequency.

     Turbostat data collection is not atomic.  Extremely short	measurement  in-
     tervals  (much less than 1 second), or system activity that prevents turbo-
     stat from being able to run on all CPUS to quickly collect data,  will  re-
     sult in inconsistent results.

     The  APERF, MPERF MSRs are defined to count non-halted cycles.  Although it
     is not guaranteed by the architecture, turbostat assumes that they count at
     TSC rate, which is true on all processors tested to date.

REFERENCES
     Volume 3B: System Programming Guide"  http://www.intel.com/products/proces-
     sor/manuals/

FILES
     /dev/cpu/*/msr

SEE ALSO
     msr(4), vmstat(8)

AUTHOR
     Written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

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