after upgrading my kernel to 6.5.5 my memory isn’t appropriately using the higher pstates causing games to run poorly.
I tried some advice I found on the arch forum related to a RDNA 2 card having the same problem, but no luck
this is the output of my inxi -Faz
System:
Kernel: 6.5.5-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=859cc0a9-bb8c-435f-a0a6-41312b22f388 rw
amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff loglevel=3 nowatchdog nvme_load=YES
initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.8 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7C84 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI (MS-7C84) v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.B0
date: 08/11/2022
Battery:
Device-1: nintendo_switch_controller_battery_0003:057E:2009.0001 model: N/A
serial: N/A charge: Full status: full
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 4
level: v3 note: check built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25)
model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 0 microcode: 0xA201016
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 tpc: 2 threads: 24 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 768 KiB desc: d-12x32 KiB; i-12x32 KiB L2: 6 MiB desc: 12x512 KiB
L3: 64 MiB desc: 2x32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2869 high: 4543 min/max: 2200/5160 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3627 2: 4533
3: 3630 4: 3619 5: 2200 6: 3617 7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 2199 10: 2206 11: 2200
12: 2196 13: 3619 14: 4543 15: 3620 16: 2200 17: 3620 18: 3629 19: 2199
20: 2200 21: 2200 22: 2200 23: 2200 24: 2200 bogomips: 177684
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: safe RET, no microcode
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX] vendor: Sapphire NITRO+
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 code: Navi-3x process: TSMC n5 (5nm)
built: 2022+ pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1
empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 2f:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:744c
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: Dell S2721DGF
serial: <filter> built: 2021 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2
size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.2.1-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (gfx1100
LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.54 6.5.5-arch1-1) device-ID: 1002:744c memory: 23.44 GiB
unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.264 layers: 6 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV GFX1100) driver: mesa radv v: 23.2.1-arch1.1
device-ID: 1002:744c surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2f:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 31:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Corsair VIRTUOSO XT Wireless Gaming Receiver
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 1b1c:0a64 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.5.5-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.80 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 26:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp38s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 28:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
status: discoverable: no pairing: no
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 6.37 TiB used: 1.77 TiB (27.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 52.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 QVO 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 QVO 4TB
size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%)
used: 725.08 GiB (79.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 54.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 51.0 C
mem: 64.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 505 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 1 Memory: total: 32 GiB
available: 31.27 GiB used: 4.79 GiB (15.3%) Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1337 libs: 345 tools: yay Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.30
this is the output of
cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info
GFX Clocks and Power:
96 MHz (MCLK)
1733 MHz (SCLK)
1960 MHz (PSTATE_SCLK)
1249 MHz (PSTATE_MCLK)
754 mV (VDDGFX)
57.0 W (average GPU)
GPU Temperature: 54 C
GPU Load: 42 %
MEM Load: 26 %
SMC Feature Mask: 0x0003ebb871ffffff
VCN: Disabled
Clock Gating Flags Mask: 0x3bc08030d
Graphics Fine Grain Clock Gating: On
Graphics Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Graphics Medium Grain memory Light Sleep: Off
Graphics Coarse Grain Clock Gating: On
Graphics Coarse Grain memory Light Sleep: On
Graphics Coarse Grain Tree Shader Clock Gating: Off
Graphics Coarse Grain Tree Shader Light Sleep: Off
Graphics Command Processor Light Sleep: Off
Graphics Run List Controller Light Sleep: Off
Graphics 3D Coarse Grain Clock Gating: Off
Graphics 3D Coarse Grain memory Light Sleep: Off
Memory Controller Light Sleep: On
Memory Controller Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
System Direct Memory Access Light Sleep: Off
System Direct Memory Access Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Bus Interface Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Bus Interface Light Sleep: Off
Unified Video Decoder Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Video Compression Engine Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Host Data Path Light Sleep: Off
Host Data Path Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Digital Right Management Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Digital Right Management Light Sleep: Off
Rom Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Data Fabric Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
VCN Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Host Data Path Deep Sleep: Off
Host Data Path Shutdown: On
Interrupt Handler Clock Gating: On
JPEG Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Repeater Fine Grain Clock Gating: On
Perfmon Clock Gating: On
Address Translation Hub Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Address Translation Hub Light Sleep: On
I’m not really sure how to proceed with debugging or addressing this issue
I’ve been reading forum threads including this one:
to try some of the easy fixes