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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ryan D. Wells, Folsom, CA (US);
Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar, Folsom, CA (US);
Inder M. Sodhi, Folsom, CA (US);
Jeremy J. Shrall, Portland, OR (US);
Stephen H. Gunther, Beaverton, OR (US);
Daniel J. Ragland, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Nicholas J. Adams, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor includes a power control unit, an interface to software during runtime that permits the software to set a plurality of power management constraint parameters for the power control unit during runtime of the processor without a reboot of the processor, and a storage element to store a respective lock bit for each of the plurality of power management constraint parameters to disable the interface from changing a respective constraint parameter when set.