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Documentation: intel_pstate: Fix description of asymmetric packing with SMT
authorRicardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:41:13 +0000 (14:41 -0700)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 13 May 2026 19:39:38 +0000 (21:39 +0200)
commitee047fc7a2da90554410128195058c409a391d43
tree5b3c1a5fa8eba4269a0709e1596bc27bbc4db93e
parent5d6919055dec134de3c40167a490f33c74c12581
Documentation: intel_pstate: Fix description of asymmetric packing with SMT

Patchset [1], including commits

 046a5a95c3b0 ("x86/sched/itmt: Give all SMT siblings of a core the same priority")
 995998ebdebd ("x86/sched: Remove SD_ASYM_PACKING from the SMT domain flags")

overhauled asym_packing handling in the scheduler on x86 hybrid
processors with SMT. It removed SD_ASYM_PACKING from the x86 SMT
scheduling domain and made all SMT siblings of a core share the same
priority. As a result, asym_packing operates only across physical
cores, spreading tasks among them and only using idle SMT siblings
once all physical cores are busy.

Fix the documentation to reflect this behavior.

Fixes: f20af84c29b2 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document hybrid processor support")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230406203148.19182-1-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424-rneri-fix-intel-pstate-doc-smt-asym-packing-v1-1-317bf7d5c362@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst