raptorlake support on 14.x/15.x for frequency scaling
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:00:39 UTC
I have been running on raptorlake (lenovo thinkpad P16s gen2) for awhile now (over a year), and yes, I know we don't handle P and E cores correctly yet; (I have been meaning to do some cheap experimentation where just looking to see if the last context switch was voluntary or involuntary and if involuntary move to a P core, otherwise keep it on E cores if available). Anyway, I know and accept the scheduler limitation here, but the frequency scaling is not working as I would expect. If just idling the CPU floats around 1.8ghz, if I start a SINGLE CPU intensive process it will scale up to 5.1ghz (good), but NOT stay there, dropping to 4.1ghz, whereas windows can maintain 5GHZ. If I start MULTIPLE CPU intensive processes it scales the frequency DOWN to 1.1GHZ (or lower). I have dev.hwpstate_intel.X.epp set to 0 for all cores, and it seems to 'work', if I have it set to 50 it tops out about 3.1ghz, setting to 100 drops it to 1.7ghz, and 0 lets me hit 5 (for single core workloads). I do not appear to be thermally throttling, core temperatures are a cool ~55C, no entries in the throttle log. Fan control is set to automatic and does appear to scale (but not to the full that windows does). If I set fan control to manual I can get the full gale force I observe in windows, but the CPUs will not go above the paltry 1.x GHZ when fully maxed. Ideas? Everything else works fantastically, and honestly this isn't too big a burden, but we should be able to do more.