PowerManagementASPM

ASPM PCIe Bug

UPDATE: A fix has now been included in the Ubuntu Precise kernel and released. The call for testing is now complete, so please do not add any more test results to this page. Thank you.

Details

As noted by Phoronix ASPM PCIe power saving has been problematic and a recent patch by Matthew Garrett has re-worked this to clear the ASPM state on all devices on a successful handoff of PCIe control to the OS.

We therefore are providing patched kernels carrying Matthew's fix for testing purposes only to see how well this works across a broad range of machines. Kernels can be found in:

For power measurement, we currently recommend using the older version of powertop 1.13 as this clearly displays the ACPI estimated power consumption. A .deb for powertop-1 can be found here. We recommend running powertop as follows:

  • Boot the machine, start powertop-1
  • Wait until you get an ACPI estimated power consumption value.
  • Gather 15 measurements (it is updated regularly).
  • Discard the first 5 results.
  • Take average of the last 10 results (total/10)

Testing procedure:

  • Ensure laptop is fully charged
  • Unplug AC power
  • Run powertop-1 on an idle system and note power consumption
  • Plug in AC power
  • Install the new kernel containing the ASPM fix
  • Restart laptop and choose the new kernel
  • Ensure laptop is fully charged
  • Unplug AC power
  • Run powertop-1 on an idle system and note power consumption
  • Gather the BIOS version using: sudo dmidecode -t 0 | grep "Version:"
  • Add results to the table below:

Please try and keep table in sorted order on the machine name. Thanks!

Machine

BIOS

32/64 bit kernel

Original Kernel

Original Kernel Power

ASPM fix Kernel

ASPM fix Power

Notes

Desktop

Acer Aspire AO722

JE10BZ V1.04

64

3.0.0-12-generic

11.43W ± 0.39

3.0.0-13-generic

11.25W ± 0.26

3

Acer Aspire One 533

V1.05

32

3.0.0-13-generic

7.58W

3.0.0-13-generic

7.7W

2

Acer Aspire One AOA110

v0.3310

32

3.0.0-13-generic

11.23

3.0.0-13-generic

11.13

Apple MacBook Pro 4,1

MBP41.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091544

64

3.0.0.12-generic

13.8

3.0.0-13-generic

13.66

9

Gnome3

Apple MacBook Pro 4,1

MBP41.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091544

64

3.0.0.12-generic

13.51

3.0.0-13-generic

13.77

10

Gnome3

Apple MacBook Pro 7,1

MBP81.88Z.0039.B0B.1006012305

64

3.0.0-13-generic

16.76

3.0.0-13-generic

15.84

7

Unity 3D

Asus P31SD

64

3.0.0-12-generic

6.6W

3.0.0-13-generic

5.7W

Gnome 3

Asus W5F

307

32

3.0.0-12-generic

12.69W

3.0.0-13-generic

12.47W

Dell Latitude D620

OTD761 A02

32

3.0.0-12-generic

22.27W ± 1.13

3.0.0-13-generic

21.31W ± 0.20

3

Dell Latitude E6510

A03

32

3.0.0-13-generic-pae

18.06 ± 1.13

3.0.0-13-generic-pae

16.92 ± 0.99

Dell Latitude E6510

A10

64

3.0.0-13-generic #22

13,3W

3.0.0-13-generic #22+mjgaspmfix

12,2W

11

Unity 3D

Dell XPS 1330M

32

3.0.0-13-generic

19,1W

3.0.0-13-generic-pae

13,2W

Unity 3D

Dell Vostro 3450

A07

32

3.0.0-12-generic-pae

20.45

3.0.0-13-generic-pae

19.55

Dell Inspiron 6400

A13

64

3.1.0-2-generic

23.3W

3.1.0-2-generic

23.2W

Unity 3D

Dell Inspiron N4010

A13

64

3.1.0-2-generic

1.21W

3.1.0-2-generic

0.95W

1

Dell Studio 1558

A12

64

3.0.0-13-generic

2.22W

3.0.0-13-generic

1.8W

1

HP Compaq nw8240

68DTV Ver. F.18

32

3.0.0-13-generic

31,13 ± 0,51W

3.0.0-13-generic

27.68 ± 0,29W

Unity 2D

HP Mini 210

F0.2

64

3.0.0-12-generic

14.3W

3.0.0-13-generic

8.7W

Unity 3D

HP Mini 210

F0.4

32

3.1.0-2-generic

11.3W

3.1.0-2-generic

11.7W

HP ProBook 5420s

68AZZ Ver. F.0F

64

3.0.0-12-generic

25.06W

3.0.0-13-generic

25.66W

HP Tablet 2730p

F.0B

64

3.1.0-2-generic

13.5W

3.1.0-2-generic

12.4W

Unity 3D

Lenovo 3000N200

68ET27WW

64

3.1.0-2-generic

24.3W

3.1.0-2-generic

25.4W

Lenovo IdeaPad S12

19CN1AWW

32

3.0.0-13-generic

10.65W

3.0.0-13-generic

10.67W

2

Lenovo Thinkpad L520

8GET36WW(1.13)

64

3.0.0-12-generic

18,05W

3.0.0-13-generic

18,18W

Lenovo ThinkPad T400

7UET92WW (3.22)

64

3.0.0-12-generic

18.07W

3.0.0-13-generic

18.10W

6

Lenovo ThinkPad T410

6IET75WW (1.35)

64

3.0.0-12-generic

11.35W

3.0.0-13-generic

9.6W

Unity 3D

Lenovo ThinkPad T420

83ET63WW (1.33)

64

3.0.0-12-generic

19.28W

3.0.0-13-generic

14.89W

Lenovo Thinkpad T420s (i915.i915_enable_rc6=1)

8CET46WW (1.26)

64

3.1.0-2-generic

12.29W

3.1.0-2-generic

9.14W

Lenovo Thinkpad T420s

8CET48WW (1.28 )

64

3.0.0-12-generic

22.56V

3.0.0-13-generic

19.54W

Lenovo Thinkpad T510

6MET84WW (1.44)

32

3.0.0-12-generic-pae

16.03W

3.0.0-13-generic-pae

14.01W

Lenovo Thinkpad T60

79ET62WW (1.07)

32

3.0.0-13-generic

22.17W ± 0.38W

3.0.0-13-generic

22.19W ± 0.36W

4

Unity 2D

Lenovo Thinkpad X200T

7WET68WW (3.18 )

64

3.0.0-13.generic

9.6

3.0.0-13.generic

9.6

Unity 3D

Lenovo Thinkpad X201

6QET52WW (1.22 )

64

3.0.0-13.generic

11.0

3.0.0-13.generic

10.0

Lenovo Thinkpad X220

8DET41WW (1.11)

64

3.0.0-13.generic

21.4

3.0.0-13.generic

19.9

Lenovo Thinkpad X220

8DET42WW (1.12)

64

3.0.0-13.generic

19.4

3.0.0-13.generic

15.7

Unity 3d

Lenovo Thinkpad X220T with SSD (i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1)

8DET49WW (1.19 )

64

3.0.0-13.generic

9,08

3.0.0-13.generic

6,24

Unity 3D

Lenovo Thinkpad X301

6EET54WW (3.14 )

64

3.1.0-2-generic

11.4W

3.1.0-2-generic

11.4W

Lenovo Thinkpad X301

6EET44WW (3.04)

64

3.1.0-2-generic

10.4W

3.1.0-2-generic

10.4W

Lenovo Thinkpad X60s

7BETC7WW (2.08)

32

3.0.0-13.generic

13.76W

3.0.0-13.generic

13.81W

Samsung NF310

03MY.M029.20101228.JIP

64

3.0.0-13-generic

6.81W

3.0.0-13-generic

6.14W

Samsung RV720

01PQ

64

3.0.0-12-generic

18.5W

3.0.0-13-generic

17.2W

Unity 3D

Toshiba NB505

V1.90

64

3.0.0-13-generic

7.98W

3.0.0-13-generic

7.92W

Toshiba Satellite P100 PSPA3A-05S00P

V3.30

32

3.0.0-12-generic

26.49

3.0.0-13-generic+mjgaspmfix

26.64W

5

Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-21U

v1.20

64

3.0.0-13-generic

8.17w

3.0.0-13-generic+mjgaspmfix

7.97w

12

Unity 3D

Lenovo Thinkpad X121e (AMD E350, ATI gfx)

V1.08

32

3.0.0-12-generic

12.01W

3.0.0-13-generic

11.43W

8

Lenovo Thinkpad X121e (Intel Core i3)

8QET25WW (1.09 )

64

3.0.0-12-generic

13.03W

3.0.0-13-generic

12.42W

Unity 3d

Lenovo Thinkpad E320 (Core i5, ATI gfx)

V1.11

32

3.0.0-12-generic-pae

23.81W

3.0.0-13-generic-pae

25.13W

8

Lenovo Thinkpad E320 (Core i3, Intel gfx)

V1.11

32

3.0.0-12-generic-pae

19.57W

3.0.0-13-generic-pae

19.70W

Lenovo Thinkpad E120 (Pentium(R) 957, Intel gfx)

V1.10

32

3.0.0-12-generic-pae

13.55W

3.0.0-13-generic-pae

13.77W

Sony Vaio VPCF1 (Intel Core i7)

R0190Y9

64

3.0.0-16-generic

20.85W

3.0.0-13-generic

19.12W

9

KDE

Notes:

  1. It is probable that these machines are incorrectly reporting power such that the value is reported as 1/10th of the actual.
  2. This variance (up) is likely within the accuracy of the figures for this machine.
  3. near-default power settings, no savings enabled
  4. With pcie_aspm=force and the original kernel this machine reports 18.84W ± 0.47W.
  5. This machine is from 2006 - not sure if this is still helpful
  6. With pcie_aspm=force on 3.0.0-12-generic the consumption was 17.78W. Combining this with tlp reduced the consumption to 14.42W.

  7. Using nouveau instead of nvidia binary driver.
  8. Using open source ATI gfx driver. Can't get BRCM wifi driver to work with patched kernel; wired network instead.
  9. With pcie_aspm=force
  10. Without pcie_aspm=force
  11. Without pcie_aspm=force, nvidia binary driver
  12. With Jupiter installed

Kernel/PowerManagementASPM (last edited 2012-02-19 14:59:07 by AAnnecy-552-1-244-103)