You can't always get what you want: P-state selection on Intel CPUs / Linux Plumbers Conference: Developing the Kernel, Libraries and Utilities

You can't always get what you want: P-state selection on Intel CPUs

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An overview of how Performance States work on Intel platforms

Abstract

This will be an overview of how Performance States (P-states) work on Intel platforms. We will start with how the platform handles p-states. We will then discuss the OS p-state selection algorithm in intel_pstate. Finally, we will talk about hardware controlled p-states (HWP). Knowing how p-state selection actually happens should help us understand how energy aware scheduling in the OS may or may not benefit Intel platforms.

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Speaker

Kristen Accardi
Intel Corp.
- Twitter: @kcaccardi
Biography

Kristen is a Linux kernel engineer working on power management for Intel’s Open Source Technology Center and is the maintainer of the intel_pstate driver. Kristen has been contributing to the Linux kernel for over 15 years in various different subsystems including PCI, SATA, and ACPI.