cpufreq: intel_pstate: Disable energy efficiency optimization

Some Kabylake desktop processors may not reach max turbo when running in
HWP mode, even if running under sustained 100% utilization.

This occurs when the HWP.EPP (Energy Performance Preference) is set to
"balance_power" (0x80) -- the default on most systems.

It occurs because the platform BIOS may erroneously enable an
energy-efficiency setting -- MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL BIT-EE, which is not
recommended to be enabled on this SKU.

On the failing systems, this BIOS issue was not discovered when the
desktop motherboard was tested with Windows, because the BIOS also
neglects to provide the ACPI/CPPC table, that Windows requires to enable
HWP, and so Windows runs in legacy P-state mode, where this setting has
no effect.

Linux' intel_pstate driver does not require ACPI/CPPC to enable HWP, and
so it runs in HWP mode, exposing this incorrect BIOS configuration.

There are several ways to address this problem.

First, Linux can also run in legacy P-state mode on this system.
As intel_pstate is how Linux enables HWP, booting with
"intel_pstate=disable"
will run in acpi-cpufreq/ondemand legacy p-state mode.

Or second, the "performance" governor can be used with intel_pstate,
which will modify HWP.EPP to 0.

Or third, starting in 4.10, the
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy*/energy_performance_preference
attribute in can be updated from "balance_power" to "performance".

Or fourth, apply this patch, which fixes the erroneous setting of
MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL BIT_EE on this model, allowing the default
configuration to function as designed.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: 4.6+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.6+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

path: root/include/net/llc_sap.h

#ifndef LLC_SAP_H
#define LLC_SAP_H

#include <asm/types.h>

/*
 * Copyright (c) 1997 by Procom Technology,Inc.
 * 		 2001-2003 by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
 *
 * This program can be redistributed or modified under the terms of the
 * GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 * This program is distributed without any warranty or implied warranty
 * of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
 *
 * See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 */
struct llc_sap;
struct net_device;
struct sk_buff;
struct sock;

void llc_sap_rtn_pdu(struct llc_sap *sap, struct sk_buff *skb);
void llc_save_primitive(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
			unsigned char prim);
struct sk_buff *llc_alloc_frame(struct sock *sk, struct net_device *dev,
				u8 type, u32 data_size);

void llc_build_and_send_test_pkt(struct llc_sap *sap, struct sk_buff *skb,
				 unsigned char *dmac, unsigned char dsap);
void llc_build_and_send_xid_pkt(struct llc_sap *sap, struct sk_buff *skb,
				unsigned char *dmac, unsigned char dsap);
#endif /* LLC_SAP_H */