On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:03:01AM +0900, Horms wrote: > 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.
Or you could mail it to LKML yourself. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
