Re: [PATCH 0/2] cpupower: Allow control of boost feature on non-x86 based systems with boost support.

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Wed Jun 18 2025 - 17:55:16 EST


On 6/3/25 01:16, Shinji Nomoto (Fujitsu) wrote:
John Wyatt wrote:
Hello Shinji, ty for your patch.

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 03:10:57PM +0900, Shinji Nomoto wrote:
The cpufreq subsystem has a generic sysfs interface for controlling
boost (/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost).
The sysfs interface can be used to enable boost control from the
cpupower command on non-x86 platforms as well. So, allow boost
controlling on
non-x86 system if boost sysfs file exists.

Did you test this on non-x86 systems? If so, would you please provide details on those architectures and systems?

Hello,

This patch has been tested on Arm-based systems.

* It was tested on our internal simulator based on QEMU which supports boost.
* It was tested on the Nvidia grace system (which does not support boost).
* The cppc_cpufreq driver is working on both of the above systems.

We have also confirmed that it continues to work as expected on AMD systems.


John,

Let me know if you are good with this testing details.

thanks,
-- Shuah