AMD CPUs since the Ryzen 3000 series (Zen 2) have had the notion of “preferred cores” that via ACPI CPPC are communicated to the OS and could be shown under Windows with the likes of AMD Ryzen Master. Now we have AMD Linux engineers working on properly leveraging the “preferred cores” handling for the modern AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver that’s seen much work over the past two years.

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    1 year ago

    I posted a longer comment below, but yes. It’s also not in the kernel yet and might not be in some time (likely 6.7), which is probably months away from reaching normal distributions.