3.2. C-state settings in the EFI firmware


In most systems with an EFI firmware, you can enable and disable the individual consumption states (C-states). However, on RHEL, the idle driver determines whether the kernel uses the settings from the firmware.

These drivers are available:

  • intel_idle: This is the default driver on hosts with an Intel CPU and ignores the C-state settings from the EFI firmware.
  • acpi_idle: RHEL uses this driver on hosts with CPUs from vendors other than Intel and if intel_idle is disabled. By default, the acpi_idle driver uses the C-state settings from the EFI firmware.

For further details, see the /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-<version>/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst file provided by the kernel-doc package.

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