Re: [PATCH v11 09/11] Documentation: introduce amd pstate active mode kernel command line options

[Wyes Karny]

On 1/18/2023 1:22 PM, 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 runtime
> based on workload utilization, usage in other IPs, infrastructure
> limits such as power, thermals and so on.
> 
> Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  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 6cfa6e3996cf..e3618dfdb36a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -7020,3 +7020,10 @@
>  			  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.

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Thanks & Regards,
Wyes