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tools/power x86_energy_perf_policy.8: Emphasize preference for SW interfaces
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:50:29 +0000 (11:50 -0400)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:12:01 +0000 (23:12 -0400)
commit66f430522452fe1a8a0fd2198cf9f335125acbfc
tree6d11e55e571c31cc61ea7d22a175245d5ece5700
parenta648e0892ccd8c2168c2deae7e12e18a8d596730
tools/power x86_energy_perf_policy.8: Emphasize preference for SW interfaces

This tool was originally written when Linux had no standard
interface for EPB, or HWP support.

Retain the capability to manage a system w/o any kernel PM support,
but prefer the standard kernel interfaces, when avaialble.

(not doing so led to a confusing conflict between a p-state limit
 request made via cpufreq and modified by the intel-pstate driver,
 versus the raw MSR write made by this utility)

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
tools/power/x86/x86_energy_perf_policy/x86_energy_perf_policy.8