Commit 49a474c7 authored by Srinivas Pandruvada's avatar Srinivas Pandruvada Committed by Andy Shevchenko

platform/x86: Add support for Uncore frequency control

Some server users set limits on the uncore frequency using MSR 620H, while
running latency sensitive workloads. Here uncore frequency controls
RING/LLC(last-level cache) clocks.

But MSR control is not always possible from the user space, so this driver
provides a sysfs interface to set max and min frequency limits. This MSR
620H is a die scoped in multi-die system or package scoped in non multi-die
systems.

When this driver is loaded, a new directory is created under
 /sys/devices/system/cpu.

For example on a two package Skylake server:
$cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_uncore_frequency

$ls
package_00_die_00 package_01_die_00

$ls package_00_die_00
max_freq_khz  min_freq_khz  initial_max_freq_khz
initial_min_freq_khz

$grep . *
    max_freq_khz:2400000
    min_freq_khz:1200000
    initial_max_freq_khz:2400000
    initial_min_freq_khz:1200000

Here, initial_max_freq_khz and initial_min_freq_khz are read only
attributes to show power up or initial values of max and min frequencies
respectively. Other attributes are read-write, so that users can modify.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSrinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
parent 26e66a0c
......@@ -1337,6 +1337,17 @@ config PCENGINES_APU2
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called pcengines-apuv2.
config INTEL_UNCORE_FREQ_CONTROL
tristate "Intel Uncore frequency control driver"
depends on X86_64
help
This driver allows control of uncore frequency limits on
supported server platforms.
Uncore frequency controls RING/LLC (last-level cache) clocks.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called intel-uncore-frequency.
source "drivers/platform/x86/intel_speed_select_if/Kconfig"
config SYSTEM76_ACPI
......
......@@ -105,3 +105,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_ATOMISP2_PM) += intel_atomisp2_pm.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PCENGINES_APU2) += pcengines-apuv2.o
obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_SPEED_SELECT_INTERFACE) += intel_speed_select_if/
obj-$(CONFIG_SYSTEM76_ACPI) += system76_acpi.o
obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_UNCORE_FREQ_CONTROL) += intel-uncore-frequency.o
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