On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:43:45AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: linux-doc-2.6.12 > Version: 2.6.12-2 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: upstream > > Gentlemen, Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt.gz, > and the relevant Documentation/*/*/*ACPI*/ document (that I cannot > find), should both emphasize that > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU/throttling > and > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/ > while appearing to describe the same thing, the e.g., same eight > steps, etc., are apparently independent of each other. > > One finds that a process that took 1 second will take 7 seconds when > choosing the lowest cpufreq step. Choosing the lowest throttling step > on the other hand causes that process to take 14 seconds! > And combining both cpufreq and throttling causes it to take much > longer. All these phenomena should be explained.
Hi Dan, Could you please draft an amendment to the documents in question and I will pass it on to upstream for consideration. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
