Updated AMD P-State Driver Published For Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Updated AMD P-State Driver Published For Linux

Earlier this month AMD published their "amd-pstate" Linux driver that leverages ACPI CPPC data to make more informed CPU frequency scaling decisions with an aim to boost the performance-per-Watt for Zen 3 (and eventually Zen 2) processors on Linux. The second spin of that "amd-pstate" Linux kernel driver is now available for testing...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-amd-pstate-v2

[skeevy420]

``amd-pstate`` mainly supports ``schedutil`` and ``ondemand`` for dynamic frequency control. It is to fine tune the processor configuration on ``amd-pstate`` to the ``schedutil`` with CPU CFS scheduler.

So does that mean that P-State is dependent on CFS and may not work if we're using something like BFS or MuQSS?

That's also an ATM Machine.

[xAlt7x]

So does that mean that P-State is dependent on CFS and may not work if we're using something like BFS or MuQSS?

Yeah, for now, it's dependent on CFS but Project C schedulers (BMQ & PDS, forked from BFS long time ago) might receive support once it's mainlined (schedutil is supported already for 5.10 & 5.11+). MuQSS is discontinued.

[thor2002ro]

v2 works on a 5900x no more error loading the module but in my case I needed to remove the acpi_cpufreq and load the amd-pstate module

[rene]

yeah, well, if you have p-states and not run with the higher performance x2apic, ... but I debugged this over the weekend, and here is the glorious one-liner patch that big cooperations like AMD or the Linux Foundation should have plumbed fixed years ago ;-) https://youtu.be/BTI78pG2V80

[ashetha]

amd-pstate is to support one of the Zen3 processors

Do we know which one?
I just tried with my 5600G. Applied the patch and rebuilt the kernel, but the module is not loading. CPPC is enabled in bios!