Small I/O Performance Boost Coming For Intel Ice Lake & Sapphire Rapids Servers

[bezirg]

Sorry for this stupid question, but do IceLake+ desktops/laptops lack this p-state IO boosting feature in their hardware?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Small I/O Performance Boost Coming For Intel Ice Lake & Sapphire Rapids Servers

There should be "slight improvements for I/O performance" coming to Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids servers on a future kernel release with a patch having surfaced to remove a check that led to these newer processors not seeing HWP I/O boosting enabled...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ICL-SPR-IO-Perf-Boost