Specification Sheet
Interfaces
50 Intel
®
 Xeon
®
 Processor E5-1600/E5-2600/E5-4600 v2 Product Families 
Datasheet Volume One of Two
Power Limit for 
the VCC Power 
Plane Write / 
Read
25 0x0000 N/A Power Limit Data Program power limit 
for VCC power plane
MSR 638h: PP0_POWER_LIMIT
CSR: PP0_POWER_LIMIT
Power Limit for 
the VCC Power 
Plane Write / 
Read
25 0x0000 Power Limit 
Data
N/A Read power limit 
data for VCC power 
plane
MSR 638h: PP0_POWER_LIMIT
CSR: PP0_POWER_LIMIT
Package Power 
Limits For 
Multiple Turbo 
Modes
26 0x0000 N/A Power Limit 1 
Data
Write power limit 
data 1 in multiple 
turbo mode.
MSR 610h: 
PACKAGE_POWER_LIMIT 
CSR: PACKAGE_POWER_LIMIT 
Package Power 
Limits For 
Multiple Turbo 
Modes
27 0x0000 N/A Power Limit 2 
Data
Write power limit 
data 2 in multiple 
turbo mode.
MSR 610h: 
PACKAGE_POWER_LIMIT 
CSR: PACKAGE_POWER_LIMIT
Package Power 
Limits For 
Multiple Turbo 
Modes
26 0x0000 Power Limit 1 
Data
N/A Read power limit 1 
data in multiple 
turbo mode.
MSR 610h: 
PACKAGE_POWER_LIMIT 
CSR: PACKAGE_POWER_LIMIT 
Package Power 
Limits For 
Multiple Turbo 
Modes
27 0x0000 Power Limit 2 
Data
N/A Read power limit 2 
data in multiple 
turbo mode.
MSR 610h: 
PACKAGE_POWER_LIMIT 
CSR: PACKAGE_POWER_LIMIT
Package Power 
Limit 
Performance 
Status Read
08 0x00FF  - CPU  
package
Accumulated 
CPU throttle 
time
N/A Read the total time 
for which the 
processor package 
was throttled due to 
power limiting.
CSR: 
PACKAGE_RAPL_PERF_STATUS
Efficient 
Performance 
Indicator Read
06 0x0000 Number of 
productive 
processor cycles
N/A Read number of 
productive cycles for 
power budgeting 
purposes.
N/A
ACPI P-T Notify 
Write & Read
33 0x0000 N/A New p-state 
equivalent of P1 
used in 
conjunction with 
package power 
limiting
Notify the processor 
PCU of the new p-
state that is one 
s
t
ate below the 
turbo frequency as 
specified  through the  
last ACPI Notify
N/A
Table 2-8. RdPkgConfig() & WrPkgConfig() CPU Thermal and Power Optimization 
Services Summary (Sheet 3 of 4)
Service
Index 
Value
(decimal)
Parameter 
Value
(word)
RdPkgConfig()
Data
(dword)
WrPkgConfig
()
Data 
(dword)
Description
Alternate
Inband 
MSR or CSR
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