Commit d6d71ee4 authored by Jacob Pan's avatar Jacob Pan Committed by Zhang Rui

PM: Introduce Intel PowerClamp Driver

Intel PowerClamp driver performs synchronized idle injection across
all online CPUs. The goal is to maintain a given package level C-state
ratio.

Compared to other throttling methods already exist in the kernel,
such as ACPI PAD (taking CPUs offline) and clock modulation, this is often
more efficient in terms of performance per watt.

Please refer to Documentation/thermal/intel_powerclamp.txt for more details.
Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
parent 29c6fb7b
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...@@ -131,4 +131,14 @@ config DB8500_CPUFREQ_COOLING ...@@ -131,4 +131,14 @@ config DB8500_CPUFREQ_COOLING
bound cpufreq cooling device turns active to set CPU frequency low to bound cpufreq cooling device turns active to set CPU frequency low to
cool down the CPU. cool down the CPU.
config INTEL_POWERCLAMP
tristate "Intel PowerClamp idle injection driver"
depends on THERMAL
depends on X86
depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
help
Enable this to enable Intel PowerClamp idle injection driver. This
enforce idle time which results in more package C-state residency. The
user interface is exposed via generic thermal framework.
endif endif
...@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_RCAR_THERMAL) += rcar_thermal.o ...@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_RCAR_THERMAL) += rcar_thermal.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EXYNOS_THERMAL) += exynos_thermal.o obj-$(CONFIG_EXYNOS_THERMAL) += exynos_thermal.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DB8500_THERMAL) += db8500_thermal.o obj-$(CONFIG_DB8500_THERMAL) += db8500_thermal.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DB8500_CPUFREQ_COOLING) += db8500_cpufreq_cooling.o obj-$(CONFIG_DB8500_CPUFREQ_COOLING) += db8500_cpufreq_cooling.o
obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_POWERCLAMP) += intel_powerclamp.o
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