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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:58:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090803205812.GC14694@plum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0907272124110.4445@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:25:54PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> Hi Darrick,
> On the system you are planning to run this on...
> Are the power meters in the processor, or elsewhere?
> 
> If they are the ones in the processor, I'd rather that
> Linux use a native model-specific driver to access those
> registers and not use ACPI.

They're not in the processor.  Right now we're simulating the meters in kvm
until we get real hardware, though it could be a mechanism to report per-VM
power use.

--D

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:58:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090803205812.GC14694@plum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0907272124110.4445@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:25:54PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> Hi Darrick,
> On the system you are planning to run this on...
> Are the power meters in the processor, or elsewhere?
> 
> If they are the ones in the processor, I'd rather that
> Linux use a native model-specific driver to access those
> registers and not use ACPI.

They're not in the processor.  Right now we're simulating the meters in kvm
until we get real hardware, though it could be a mechanism to report per-VM
power use.

--D

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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-25  0:43 [PATCH 0/2] ACPI 4.0 power meter Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-25  0:43 ` [lm-sensors] " Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-25  0:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-25  0:43   ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-07 18:09   ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Pavel Machek
2009-08-07 18:09     ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power Pavel Machek
2009-08-08 17:40     ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-08 17:40       ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-08 21:48       ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Pavel Machek
2009-08-08 21:48         ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power Pavel Machek
2009-08-10 21:12         ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-10 21:12           ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-12 11:56           ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Pavel Machek
2009-08-12 11:56             ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power Pavel Machek
2009-08-18 23:32             ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-18 23:32               ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-25  0:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-25  0:43   ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-27  1:44   ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters ykzhao
2009-07-27  1:44     ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ykzhao
2009-08-03 20:48     ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-03 20:48       ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-27  6:45   ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Zhang Rui
2009-07-27  6:45     ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for Zhang Rui
2009-08-03 20:52     ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-03 20:52       ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-03 20:52       ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-28  1:25   ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Len Brown
2009-07-28  1:25     ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for Len Brown
2009-08-03 20:58     ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2009-08-03 20:58       ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-06 20:42       ` [PATCH v2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-06 20:42         ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-17 22:05         ` [PATCH v2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Andrew Morton
2009-08-17 22:05           ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI Andrew Morton
2009-08-18 16:24           ` [PATCH v2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-18 16:24             ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI Darrick J. Wong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-18 23:47 [PATCH 0/2] ACPI 4.0 power meter Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-18 23:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-20 23:47   ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-20 23:47     ` Andrew Morton

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