Intel Corporation

Feranak Nelson

Devadatta V Bodas

Russell Jerome Fenger

James Steven Burns

Baskaran Ganesan

Suresh Sugumar

Sundaravarathan R Iyengar

John M Powell, Jr

Dheemanth Nagaraj

In one embodiment, a processor has multiple cores to execute threads. The processor further includes a power control logic to enable entry into a turbo mode based on a comparison between a threshold and value of a counter that stores a count of core power and performance combinations that identify turbo mode requests of at least one of the threads. In this way, turbo mode may be entered at a utilization level of the processor that provides for high power efficiency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Increasing power efficiency of turbo mode operation in a processor

Systems and methods of operating a computing system may involve identifying a plurality of state values, wherein each state value corresponds to a computing thread associated with a processor. An average value can be determined for the plurality of state values, wherein a determination may be made as to whether to grant a frequency boost request based at least in part on the average value.

Efficient frequency boost operation

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