Intel E5-2690v3 stopped turboing with kernel 5.9

[stephane]

see this topic
try intel_pstate=active

Kernel 5.8.x my system seems to be only running at it’s minimum clock of 800mhz

Under 5.7.15-1 sudo cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 800 MHz - 4.50 GHz available cpufreq governors: performance powersave current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 4.50 GHz. The governor "powersave" may decide which sp…