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Documentation: amd-pstate: add EPP profiles introduction
The amd-pstate driver supports a feature called energy performance preference (EPP). Add information to the documentation to explain how users can interact with the sysfs files for this feature. 1) See all EPP profiles $ sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/energy_performance_available_preferences default performance balance_performance balance_power power 2) Check current EPP profile $ sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/energy_performance_preference performance 3) Set new EPP profile $ sudo bash -c "echo power > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/energy_performance_preference" Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Tested-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This attribute is read-only.
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``energy_performance_available_preferences``
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A list of all the supported EPP preferences that could be used for
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``energy_performance_preference`` on this system.
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These profiles represent different hints that are provided
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to the low-level firmware about the user's desired energy vs efficiency
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tradeoff. ``default`` represents the epp value is set by platform
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firmware. This attribute is read-only.
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``energy_performance_preference``
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The current energy performance preference can be read from this attribute.
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and user can change current preference according to energy or performance needs
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Please get all support profiles list from
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``energy_performance_available_preferences`` attribute, all the profiles are
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integer values defined between 0 to 255 when EPP feature is enabled by platform
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firmware, if EPP feature is disabled, driver will ignore the written value
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This attribute is read-write.
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Other performance and frequency values can be read back from
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``/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/acpi_cppc/``, see :ref:`cppc_sysfs`.
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