Power-saving/performance toggles for amdgpu
Bastien Nocera
hadess at hadess.net
Fri Aug 6 16:20:52 UTC 2021
On Fri, 2021-08-06 at 11:45 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> You could set one of the profiles which sets more or less aggressive
> clocking, but you still get the advantages of the SMU being able to
> dynamically adjust the clocks. If you manually force the clock to low
> or high, you end up forcing all clocks, even if a particular engine is
> not in use. E.g., if you are not using video decode, there is no need
> to force the decoder clocks high as well. Also, if the userspace tool
> dies for some reason, that will leave the clocks in the forced state.
This looks like the best option for that use case. I've documented it
here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/power-profiles-daemon/-/issues/3#note_1021578
Thanks very much for your help!
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