Abstract:
The present invention relates to a platform power management scheme. In some embodiments, a platform provides a relative performance scale using one or more parameters to be requested by an OSPM system.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining that a non-core domain of a multi-domain processor is not operating at a frequency requested by the non-core domain, sending a request from the non-core domain to a power controller to reduce a frequency of a core domain of the multi-domain processor, and responsive to the request, reducing the core domain frequency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining a power budget for a multi-domain processor for a current time interval, determining a portion of the power budget to be allocated to first and second domains of the processor, and controlling a frequency of the domains based on the allocated portions. Such determinations and allocations can be dynamically performed during runtime of the processor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Abstract:
A computer system may support one or more techniques to allow dynamic pinning of the memory pages accessed by a non-CPU device (e.g., a graphics processing unit, GPU). The non-CPU may support virtual to physical address mapping and may thus be aware of the memory pages, which may not be pinned but may be accessed by the non-CPU. The non-CPU may notify or send such information to a run-time component such as a device driver associated with the CPU. In one embodiment, the device driver may, dynamically, perform pinning of such memory pages, which may be accessed by the non-CPU. The device driver may even unpin the memory pages, which may be no longer accessed by the non-CPU. Such an approach may allow the memory pages, which may be no longer accessed by the non-CPU to be available for allocation to the other CPUs and/or non-CPUs.
Abstract:
Systems and methods of managing power provide for issuing a first operating requirement from a first processor core and issuing a second operating requirement from a second processor core. In one embodiment, the operating requirements can reflect either a power policy or a performance policy, depending upon the factor that is currently most important to software. Hardware coordination logic is used to coordinate a shared resource setting with the operating requirements. The hardware coordination logic is also able to coordinate the shared resource setting with independent resource settings of the first and second processor cores based on the operating requirements.