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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] lib/power: add bit for high frequency
	cores
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 16:43:55 +0100
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On 01-Apr-19 4:30 PM, David Hunt wrote:
> This patch adds a new bit in the capabilities mask that's returned by
> rte_power_get_capabilities(), allowing application to query which cores
> have the higher frequencies, and can then pin the workloads accordingly.
> 
> Returned Bits:
>   0 - Turbo Boost enabled
>   1 - Higher core base_frequency
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
> ---

<snip>

>   	/* Add MSR read to detect turbo status */
>   
>   	if (power_rdmsr(PLATFORM_INFO, &max_non_turbo, pi->lcore_id) < 0)
> @@ -179,6 +207,14 @@ power_init_for_setting_freq(struct pstate_power_info *pi)
>   
>   	pi->non_turbo_max_ratio = max_non_turbo;
>   
> +	/*Add the compare for base frequency  */

The comment here looks meaningless, and needs to be reworded to explain 
why this is done, not what is done.

Otherwise,

Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly