No High Performance power mode

Hi,

Any reason that High Performance on power mode would not be available?

nu ✗ powerprofilesctl
* balanced:
    PlatformDriver:     placeholder

  power-saver:
    PlatformDriver:     placeholder
nu ❯ cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 14:
  no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: Not Available
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: Not Available
  maximum transition latency:  Cannot determine or is not supported.
Not Available
  available cpufreq governors: Not Available
  Unable to determine current policy
  current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
  current CPU frequency:  Unable to call to kernel
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: no

What can be done about it?


I have a tweaked BIOS, is there anything there that could cause it to be like it is?

Found out why.

It was the PSS support in the BIOS, it was disabled.

nu ❯ powerprofilesctl
* performance:
    CpuDriver:  amd_pstate
    Degraded:   no

  balanced:
    CpuDriver:  amd_pstate
    PlatformDriver:     placeholder

  power-saver:
    CpuDriver:  amd_pstate
    PlatformDriver:     placeholder
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
nu ❯ cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 8:
  driver: amd-pstate-epp
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 8
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 8
  maximum transition latency:  Cannot determine or is not supported.
  hardware limits: 550 MHz - 4.55 GHz
  available cpufreq governors: performance powersave
  current policy: frequency should be within 1.75 GHz and 4.55 GHz.
                  The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
  current CPU frequency: 4.11 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: yes
    AMD PSTATE Highest Performance: 191. Maximum Frequency: 4.55 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Nominal Performance: 124. Nominal Frequency: 3.40 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Lowest Non-linear Performance: 64. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 1.75 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Lowest Performance: 21. Lowest Frequency: 550 MHz.

It doesnt seem to have all the options, like maximum transition latency, but it should be enough.

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