Documentation: intel_pstate: Update per core limits

Document restriction on per core P-State control.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
index 5528d6d59687f8b91c5de42edaed05294e4607b2..198b2ef88aece8d7bdc62a874dfac6ee1b769dae 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ In addition to the frequency-controlling interfaces provided by the cpufreq
 core, the driver provides its own sysfs files to control the P-State selection.
 These files have been added to /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/.
 Any changes made to these files are applicable to all CPUs (even in a
-multi-package system).
+multi-package system, Refer to later section on placing "Per-CPU limits").
 
       max_perf_pct: Limits the maximum P-State that will be requested by
       the driver. It states it as a percentage of the available performance. The
@@ -120,6 +120,25 @@ frequency is fictional for Intel Core processors. Even if the scaling
 driver selects a single P-State, the actual frequency the processor
 will run at is selected by the processor itself.
 
+Per-CPU limits
+
+The kernel command line option "intel_pstate=per_cpu_perf_limits" forces
+the intel_pstate driver to use per-CPU performance limits.  When it is set,
+the sysfs control interface described above is subject to limitations.
+- The following controls are not available for both read and write
+       /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct
+       /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
+- The following controls can be used to set performance limits, as far as the
+architecture of the processor permits:
+       /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
+       /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
+       /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
+- User can still observe turbo percent and number of P-States from
+       /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/turbo_pct
+       /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/num_pstates
+- User can read write system wide turbo status
+       /sys/devices/system/cpu/no_turbo
+
 Tuning Intel P-State driver
 
 When the performance can be tuned using PID (Proportional Integral