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Re:AVX-512, what’s useful for us by pkaye on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:37PM (#15990244)
That is one theory I had but i'm not sure how to determine if CPU is throttling (on Ubuntu Linux.)
Re:AVX-512, what’s useful for us by thecompilr on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:16PM (#15991366)
You can either use lscpu, which is less accurate, or the best way is to check:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq

where instead of cpu0 you can write any core number, and it will give you the current frequency of that core in KHz.

Re:AVX-512, what’s useful for us by pkaye on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:15PM (#15991688)
I'll try that out. Thanks.
Re:AVX-512, what’s useful for us by lathiat on Saturday December 23, 2017 @12:59AM (#15993122)
Note that with pstate /proc/cpuinfo is not reflective (not suggested here but, in the past, the MHz used to change to reflect the scaling speed). You could also look at 'powertop'
Re:AVX-512, what’s useful for us by dpayne on Saturday December 23, 2017 @01:23AM (#15993171)
One way I've found to isolate this is to turn off turbo boost and underclock the cpu, while making sure the avx offset is set to 100%. While you would never want to run a production system like this, it does help to eliminate any issues with cpu throttling. If the avx-512 version of the program still runs slower then something else is interfering besides cpu throttling.