From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nate Lawson Subject: Re: Via 694X based SMB boards (Apollo Pro133A) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:29:08 -0800 (PST) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20040115162752.C73674@root.org> References: <20040115141018.F72769@root.org> <20040115153450.J73140@root.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Dino Klein Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Dino Klein wrote: > > What are your Processor objects? Here's a dual processor Xeon board with > > a duplicated P_BLK. The extra two objects are for the hyperthreading > > logical CPUs. > > > > IntelSE7501BR2.asl: Processor (CPU1, 0x01, 0x00000410, 0x06) {} > > IntelSE7501BR2.asl: Processor (CPU2, 0x02, 0x00000410, 0x06) {} > > IntelSE7501BR2.asl: Processor (CPU3, 0x06, 0x00000410, 0x06) {} > > IntelSE7501BR2.asl: Processor (CPU4, 0x07, 0x00000410, 0x06) {} > > For my motherboard there is no P_BLK specified for either CPU. > However, what you show here makes me wonder about this: > ****** > 4.7.3.5 Processor Register Block (P_BLK) > This optional register block is used to control each processor in the > system. There is one unique processor register block per processor in the > system. > ****** > > This is from the 2.0c spec, which also appears in 1.0b. > Doesn't this imply that the statistics collected regarding the number of > state promotions/demotions are meanigless? Can't parse your question. Without a P_BLK, you shouldn't be doing ACPI throttling. I assume you guessed at the P_BLK address or hardcoded it from a datasheet? -Nate ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn