[elrepo] No ondemand cpuspeed with 3.18.2-1.el6 kernel

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Robert Nichols
<rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:
> I cannot get CPU ondemand frequency scaling working fully with
> kernel-3.18.2-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.
>
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors shows
> only the "performance" and "powersave" governors available, no
> "ondemand".
>
> The driver listed in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver
> is "intel_pstate". The script that starts the cpuspeed service does not
> recognize that as compatible with "ondemand" and fails to start. I tried
> patching the script to add "intel_pstate" to the list of acceptable
> drivers. That allows the service to start, but I still have only the
> "performance" and "powersave" drivers available.

At this point, can you try loading the ondemand module?

modprobe cpufreq_ondemand

Would this succeed at all?

Akemi