Hi everyone, I've been experimenting with ParkControl to manage CPU parking on my PC, which uses an Intel Alder Lake processor with both Performance and Efficiency cores. I'm curious how ParkControl distinguishes between these cores when applying parking settings. Does it treat all cores equally, or can it differentiate between P-cores and E-cores? Any insights or detailed explanations would be greatly appreciated!
The system is responsible for that differentiation. In Windows 10, power plan attributes exist to control parking for each of the distinct processor classes (E-core, P-core), and ParkControl will show those. Unfortunately, in Windows 11 those power plan attributes are not available, so precise control over which class of processor cores get parked is not supported.
In Windows 11, the attributes for power plans are not accessible, meaning that precise management of which class of processor cores can be parked is not feasible.