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AMD Core Performance Boost & Fast CPPC Land In Linux 6.11, Intel Lunar Lake Improvements


The power management updates have been merged for Linux 6.11 that include some nice improvements for Intel and AMD processors.

This allows toggling CPB on a per-core basis for this feature to leverage the CPU core's boost frequency range / performance states. The AMD P-State driver also has Fast CPPC support merged as a power efficiency / performance-per-Watt improvement for some laptop SoCs to achieve slightly better results. The power management updates also introduce the new Loongson 3 CPUFreq driver for helping with CPU frequency scaling for those Chinese processors.

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