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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-07-03 04:26:50 +0300
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Simple overlapping changes in stmmac driver. Adjust skb_gro_flush_final_remcsum function signature to make GRO list changes in net-next, as per Stephen Rothwell's example merge resolution. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -324,8 +324,7 @@ Global Attributes
``intel_pstate`` exposes several global attributes (files) in ``sysfs`` to
control its functionality at the system level. They are located in the
-``/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/intel_pstate/`` directory and affect all
-CPUs.
+``/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/`` directory and affect all CPUs.
Some of them are not present if the ``intel_pstate=per_cpu_perf_limits``
argument is passed to the kernel in the command line.
@@ -379,6 +378,17 @@ argument is passed to the kernel in the command line.
but it affects the maximum possible value of per-policy P-state limits
(see `Interpretation of Policy Attributes`_ below for details).
+``hwp_dynamic_boost``
+ This attribute is only present if ``intel_pstate`` works in the
+ `active mode with the HWP feature enabled <Active Mode With HWP_>`_ in
+ the processor. If set (equal to 1), it causes the minimum P-state limit
+ to be increased dynamically for a short time whenever a task previously
+ waiting on I/O is selected to run on a given logical CPU (the purpose
+ of this mechanism is to improve performance).
+
+ This setting has no effect on logical CPUs whose minimum P-state limit
+ is directly set to the highest non-turbo P-state or above it.
+
.. _status_attr:
``status``