Re: [PATCH v2] platform: x86: Support Turbo Boost Max 3.0 for non HWP systems

[Darren Hart]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:29:15AM -0800, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On platforms supporting Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, the
> maximum turbo frequencies (turbo ratio) of some cores in a CPU package
> may be higher than the other cores in the same package.  In that case,
> better performance can be achieved by making the scheduler prefer to run
> tasks on the CPUs with higher max turbo frequencies.
> 
> On Intel® Broadwell Xeon systems, it is optional to turn on HWP
> (Hardware P-States). When HWP is not turned on, the BIOS doesn't
> present required CPPC (Collaborative Processor Performance Control)
> tables. This table is used to get the per CPU core maximum performance
> ratio and inform scheduler (in cpufreq/intel_pstate driver).
> 
> On such systems the maximum performance ratio can be read via over
> clocking (OC) mailbox interface for each CPU. This interface is not
> architectural and can change for every model of processors.
> 
> This driver reads maximum performance ratio of each CPU and set up
> the scheduler priority metrics. In this way scheduler can prefer CPU
> with higher performance to schedule tasks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Queued to testing, thanks Srinivas.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center