[PATCH v9 1/3] power: add Intel uncore frequency control API to power library

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu,  6 Oct 2022 09:38:01 +0000
Tadhg Kearney <tadhg.kearney at intel.com> wrote:

> Add API to allow uncore frequency adjustment. Uncore is a
> term used by Intel to describe function of a microprocessor
> that are closely connected to the core to achieve high
> performance. This is done through manipulating related
> uncore frequency control sysfs entries to adjust the
> minimum and maximum uncore frequency values and works
> on Linux for Intel hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tadhg Kearney <tadhg.kearney at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
> Acked-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>

Looks like this is missing an opportunity for a more general
long term solution in DPDK.

Shouldn't this be a general thing like the Linux kernel scheduler.
Uncore is Intel specific, but there is already big/little cores
on many ARM platforms.