[PATCH v9 11/13] Documentation: introduce amd pstate active mode kernel command line options

Perry Yuan
2022-12-25T16:36:51Z

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.

Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.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.
--
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