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[v8,11/13] Documentation: introduce amd pstate active mode kernel command line options

Message ID 20221219064042.661122-12-perry.yuan@amd.com
State Superseded
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Series [v8,01/13] ACPI: CPPC: Add AMD pstate energy performance preference cppc control | expand

Commit Message

Yuan, Perry Dec. 19, 2022, 6:40 a.m. UTC
AMD Pstate driver support another firmware based autonomous mode
with "amd_pstate=active" added to the kernel command line.
In autonomous mode SMU firmware decides frequencies at 1 ms timescale
based on workload utilization, usage in other IPs, infrastructure
limits such as power, thermals and so on.

Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>
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 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 42af9ca0127e..73a02816f6f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -6970,3 +6970,10 @@ 
 			  management firmware translates the requests into actual
 			  hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory
 			  clocks etc.)
+			active
+			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
+			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
+			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
+			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
+			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
+			  frequency.