Re: heatload 0.4 now with throttling support

[Faye Pearson <faye-6JSjyQ0Qj1ReoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>]

Malte Thoma [thoma-iYtK5bfT9M8b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org] wrote:
> cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0
> 
> ... it seems to me that there are a LOT of different 
> proc/acpi-structures :-(
> 
> /proc/acpi/thermal/0/status
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0

As with most ACPI things, the name of the thermal_zone is defined by the
DSDT table, and is arbitrary.  You should read everything in the
directory.

> hope that the ACPI-group stabilize this ;-)

They can't do anything about it.

> until now heatload workes only for one CPU (i suppose the thermal_zone 
> is coherent to the counting of CPUs?)

No, there could be a passive zone, a critical zone etc.


Faye

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