
Karol this week sent out 37 patches for volting/clocking improvements on Fermi/Kepler and he says the work is "like 95% done." This work also adds a new NvVoltOffsetmV module parameter for being able to over or under-volt the graphics processor. This over/under-volting can be used for fixing re-clocking issues by supplying more voltage to the GPU or also in the case of over/under-clocking the GPU.
Find out more about this latest reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver improvements via this mailing list thread. As mentioned in Nouveau "Boost" Patches Show Much Performance Potential, Karol is hoping to see the volting/re-clocking improvements ready for Linux 4.7~4.8.
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