cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback" powersave bias for ondemand governor

Future AMD processors, starting with Family 16h, can provide software
with feedback on how the workload may respond to frequency change --
memory-bound workloads will not benefit from higher frequency, where
as compute-bound workloads will. This patch enables this "frequency
sensitivity feedback" to aid the ondemand governor to make better
frequency change decisions by hooking into the powersave bias.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jacob Shin
2013-04-04 16:19:04 +00:00
committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
parent fb30809efa
commit 9c5320c8ea
6 changed files with 190 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ void __cpuinit init_scattered_cpuid_features(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{ X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF, CR_ECX, 0, 0x00000006, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_EPB, CR_ECX, 3, 0x00000006, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT, CR_EAX, 0, 0x0000000d, 1 },
{ X86_FEATURE_CPB, CR_EDX, 9, 0x80000007, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_HW_PSTATE, CR_EDX, 7, 0x80000007, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_CPB, CR_EDX, 9, 0x80000007, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_PROC_FEEDBACK, CR_EDX,11, 0x80000007, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_NPT, CR_EDX, 0, 0x8000000a, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_LBRV, CR_EDX, 1, 0x8000000a, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_SVML, CR_EDX, 2, 0x8000000a, 0 },