@dsmythies IIUC this happens also with a mainline kernel, right? Not
just the Ubuntu lowlatency one.

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Title:
  Specifying nohz_full disables CPU frequency scaling

Status in linux-signed-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  With the lowlatency kernel, if I specify "nohz_full=1-15" boot
  parameter then CPU frequency scaling doesn't work for the logical
  cores 1-15. That is, only logical core 0 shows varying CPU frequency
  in its /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq file, all
  other cores constantly show 800000 in their scaling_cur_freq files
  (which is the lowest supported frequency) regardless of the CPU load.

  Steps to reproduce:

  1. Add "nohz_full=1-15" (specify the core numbers to include all logical 
cores except 0) to kernel boot options in /etc/default/grub.
  2. Run `sudo update-grub` and reboot.
  3. Upon booting, run a multithreaded workload. For example, run `openssl 
speed -multi $(nproc --all)`.
  4. In another console, monitor CPU frequencies by running `watch cat 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq`.

  Actual results:

  All cores specified in "nohz_full" parameter are always at their
  lowest frequency.

  Expected results:

  All cores must scale the frequency up with active load.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: linux-image-6.5.0-15-lowlatency 6.5.0-15.15.1.1~22.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-15.15.1.1~22.04.1-lowlatency 6.5.3
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-15-lowlatency x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Tue Jan 30 23:39:51 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-01 (3196 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
  SourcePackage: linux-signed-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-05-14 (626 days ago)

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