NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX- Performance tuning by setting the CPU, GPU, and Frequency values manually

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This section provides information on how to manage the number of active CPUs and the CPU, GPU, and External Memory Controller frequencies.

Manage CPU State

The Orin NX will always boot from one CPU denominated the master CPU which cannot be turned off. All other CPUs can be turned off. The CPUs are listed in the directory /sys/devices/system/cpu/ of your Orin AGX, as shown in the following example:

nvidia@ubuntu:~$ ls -v /sys/devices/system/cpu | grep cpu[0-5]
cpu0
cpu1
cpu2
cpu3
cpu4
cpu5

Make sure to replace <cpu#> with one of the CPU devices available in your system, for instance, cpu4.

Check the state of a CPU

To check CPU state run the following command. Make sure to replace <cpu#> with one of the CPU devices available in your system, for instance, cpu4:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/<cpu#>/online

Turn on a CPU

Run the following command to turn on a slave CPU:

sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/<cpu#>/online"

Turn off a CPU

Run the following command to turn a slave CPU off:

sudo sh -c "echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/<cpu#>/online"

3D Frequency Scaling

Frequency scaling allows the Tegra to change the CPU frequency according to the load in order to reduce power consumption, 3D frequency scaling is enabled by default.

Disable

To disable 3D frequency scaling run the following command:

sudo sh -c "echo 0 >  /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/enable_3d_scaling"

Enable

To enable 3D frequency scaling run the following command:

sudo sh -c "echo 1 >  /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/enable_3d_scaling"

Change CPU Frequency

To print the CPU lower boundary, upper boundary, and current frequency run the following commands:

CPU=cpu1 #The number can be changed
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/$CPU/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/$CPU/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/$CPU/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq

To change the CPU upper boundary run the following command:

CPU_FREQ=115200
CPU=cpu1 #The number can be changed
sudo sh -c "echo $CPU_FREQ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/$CPU/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq"

To change the CPU lower boundary run the following command:

CPU_FREQ=2265600
CPU=cpu1 #The number can be changed
sudo sh -c "echo $CPU_FREQ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/$CPU/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq"

To set the static CPU frequency run the following commands:

CPU_FREQ=2265600
CPU=cpu1 #The number can be changed
sudo sh -c "echo $CPU_FREQ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/$CPU/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq"
sudo sh -c "echo $CPU_FREQ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/$CPU/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq"

Where CPU_FREQ must be among the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/$CPU/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies

Change GPU Frequency

To print the GPU lower boundary, upper boundary, and current frequency run the following commands:

cat /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/devfreq/17000000.ga10b/min_freq
cat /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/devfreq/17000000.ga10b/max_freq
cat /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/devfreq/17000000.ga10b/cur_freq

To change the GPU upper boundary run the following command:

GPU_FREQ=675750000
sudo sh -c "echo $GPU_FREQ > /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/devfreq/17000000.ga10b/max_freq"

To change the GPU lower boundary run the following command:

GPU_FREQ=114750000
sudo sh -c "echo $GPU_FREQ > /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/devfreq/17000000.ga10b/min_freq"

To set the static GPU frequency run the following command:

GPU_FREQ=675750000
sudo sh -c "echo $GPU_FREQ > /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/devfreq/17000000.ga10b/min_freq"
sudo sh -c "echo $GPU_FREQ > /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/devfreq/17000000.ga10b/max_freq"

Where GPU_FREQ is the value available in: /sys/devices/17000000.ga10b/devfreq/17000000.ga10b/available_frequencies

Change Memory Frequency

sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/mrq_rate_locked"
sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/state"
sudo sh -c "echo 665600000 > /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/rate"

To print the EMC lower boundary, upper boundary, and current frequency run the following commands:

sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/min_rate
sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/max_rate
sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/rate

To change the EMC upper boundary run the following command:

EMC_FREQ=2133000000
sudo sh -c "echo $EMC_FREQ > /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/max_rate"

To change the EMC lower boundary run the following command:

EMC_FREQ=204000000
sudo sh -c "echo $EMC_FREQ > /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/min_rate"

To set static EMC frequency run the following commands:

EMC_FREQ=2133000000
sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/mrq_rate_locked"
sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/state"
sudo sh -c "echo $EMC_FREQ > /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/clk/emc/rate"

Where EMC_FREQ in kHz is the value available in: /sys/kernel/debug/bpmp/debug/emc/tables/regular/