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Srinivas Pandruvada 4ec567b8dd platform/x86: Support Turbo Boost Max 3.0 for non HWP systems
On platforms supporting Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, the
maximum turbo frequencies (turbo ratio) of some cores in a CPU package
may be higher than the other cores in the same package.  In that case,
better performance can be achieved by making the scheduler prefer to run
tasks on the CPUs with higher max turbo frequencies.

On Intel® Broadwell Xeon systems, it is optional to turn on HWP
(Hardware P-States). When HWP is not turned on, the BIOS doesn't
present required CPPC (Collaborative Processor Performance Control)
tables. This table is used to get the per CPU core maximum performance
ratio and inform scheduler (in cpufreq/intel_pstate driver).

On such systems the maximum performance ratio can be read via over
clocking (OC) mailbox interface for each CPU. This interface is not
architectural and can change for every model of processors.

This driver reads maximum performance ratio of each CPU and set up
the scheduler priority metrics. In this way scheduler can prefer CPU
with higher performance to schedule tasks.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
2017-02-04 02:47:20 +01:00
arch parisc: Don't use BITS_PER_LONG in userspace-exported swab.h header 2017-01-28 21:54:23 +01:00
block blk-mq: Remove unused variable 2017-01-18 15:14:15 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
Documentation ARC fixes for 4.10-rc6 2017-01-28 11:00:08 -08:00
drivers platform/x86: Support Turbo Boost Max 3.0 for non HWP systems 2017-02-04 02:47:20 +01:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.10 2017-01-28 11:50:17 -08:00
include NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.10 2017-01-28 11:50:17 -08:00
init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
lib mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
mm mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.10 2017-01-28 11:50:17 -08:00
samples bpf: fix samples xdp_tx_iptunnel and tc_l2_redirect with fake KBUILD_MODNAME 2017-01-20 12:04:07 -05:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.10 2017-01-11 19:49:27 +01:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-17 15:04:59 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
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.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc6 2017-01-29 14:25:17 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.