Werner Zeh has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/29771 )
Change subject: intelblocks/cpu: Add function to enable maximum efficiency ......................................................................
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Does Intel call it "maximum efficiency" in their documentation? What you describe would lower power not energy, which confuses me. Efficient should be to save energy, i.e. the best performance per power.
If you have a look at the MSR description (the big Intel software developer manual), you will find the following text for the bits in question:
Maximum Efficiency Ratio (R/O) The is the minimum ratio (maximum efficiency) that the processor can operates, in units of 100MHz.
This is the reason for the naming.