Re: [PATCH 0/2] intel_pstate: Add support for hardware managed P states (HWP)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Nov 14 2014 - 18:33:20 EST


On Thursday, November 06, 2014 09:40:45 AM dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch set adds support for HWP. When HWP is enabled the CPU will
> do P state autonomously and intel_pstate simply provides an interface
> to forward user preferences to the CPU while maintaining the
> interfaces required by the cpufreq core.
>
> Dirk Brandewie (2):
> x86: Add support for Intel HWP feature detection.
> intel_pstate: Add support for HWP
>
> Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt | 37 ++++++++----
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 5 ++
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h | 41 +++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 5 ++
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 6 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Both patches queued up for 3.19 (with assorted fixups), thanks!

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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