Collaborative processor and system performance and power management

摘要

The present invention relates to a platform power management scheme. In some embodiments, a platform provides a relative performance scale using one or more parameters to be requested by an OSPM system.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor and memory, the memory having instructions to be executed by the processor, the instructions when executed, implement an Operating System (OS) and identify capabilities registers, wherein the capabilities registers including: a highest performance register, a nominal performance register, and a lowest performance register, wherein the capabilities registers are to indicate to the OS a scale of available performance levels, and wherein the capabilities registers are separate from one or more control registers.