[PATCH 0/1][SRU][J] Improve performance and idle power consumption for AMD CPUs
Alex Hung
alex.hung at canonical.com
Thu Jan 6 21:08:36 UTC 2022
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1941893
[Impact]
This can improve AMD performance for all Zen or newer CPU which support C3 shares cache.
[Fix]
Its not necessary to flush the caches in software before entering C3.
Empirical measurements show:
40-45% improvement in speedometer score.
~15% improvement in idle power.
The patch is cherry-picked from kernel 5.16
[Test]
This is requested by AMD.
[Where problems could occur]
Low risk. This only works on AMD Zen CPUs that supports this features. AMD
tested it and provided estimated measurement results.
Deepak Sharma (1):
x86: ACPI: cstate: Optimize C3 entry on AMD CPUs
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
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2.32.0
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