Is this a bug? Inconsistency between tuned-adm active and cat scaling_governor

[harryfine]

I’m using Fedora 43 KDE with the new 6.18 kernel on an amd Ryzen 16x Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor.

Playing around, i see that in the panel there is an applet for power, I can set power profiles to balanced, powersave or performance. I believe this uses the new tuned daemon which is active:

   1490 ?        00:00:01 tuned
   1593 ?        00:00:00 tuned-ppd

The sudo systemctl status tuned command confirms it’s active. I’ve left the slide on balanced since the install. This is confirmed with:

$ tuned-adm active
Current active profile: balanced

Yet…looking in this directory:

harry1@landlord:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cpufreq

-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 affected_cpus
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 amd_pstate_highest_perf
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 amd_pstate_hw_prefcore
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 amd_pstate_lowest_nonlinear_freq
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 amd_pstate_max_freq
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 amd_pstate_prefcore_ranking
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 17:40 boost
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 cpuinfo_avg_freq
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 12:55 cpuinfo_max_freq
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 12:55 cpuinfo_min_freq
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 cpuinfo_transition_latency
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 12:55 energy_performance_available_preferences
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 17:46 energy_performance_preference
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 related_cpus
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 12:55 scaling_available_governors
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 12:55 scaling_cur_freq
-r–r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 scaling_driver
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 17:46 scaling_governor
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 scaling_max_freq
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 scaling_min_freq
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 4096 Jan 8 18:00 scaling_setspeed

and executing the command: cat scaling_governor

I see “powersave”

Hand in hand with that, the contents of these files confirms the "powersave" state.

harry1@landlord:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cpufreq$ cat scaling_min_freq
1754308
harry1@landlord:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cpufreq$ cat scaling_max_freq
4853585
harry1@landlord:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cpufreq$ cat scaling_cur_freq
1754308

So which is correct, and why are they different?