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Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs


Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd_pstate driver on supported systems

Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd_pstate driver on supported systems. The virtual-cpufreq driver is intended for guest virtual machine (VM) kernels for helping to improve the performance and power of workloads operating within VMs. Back when Google engineers first presented the work last year they were talking of dramatic VM performance and power efficiency benefits.

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