linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 11/13] Documentation: introduce amd pstate active mode kernel command line options

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Date:   Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:29:34 -0600
From:   "Limonciello, Mario" <mario.limonciello@....com>
To:     Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@....com>, rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com,
        ray.huang@....com, viresh.kumar@...aro.org
Cc:     Deepak.Sharma@....com, Nathan.Fontenot@....com,
        Alexander.Deucher@....com, Shimmer.Huang@....com,
        Xiaojian.Du@....com, Li.Meng@....com, wyes.karny@....com,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 11/13] Documentation: introduce amd pstate active mode
 kernel command line options

On 12/19/2022 00:40, Perry Yuan wrote:
> 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

This might be the case right now, but I don't know that it will always
be this timescale.  Suggest to drop drop "at 1ms 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@....com>

With nit fixed:

Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>

> ---
>   Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> 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.