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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Subject: Re: How is user space notified of CPU speed changes?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:23:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098444170.19459.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098399709.4131.23.camel@krustophenia.net>

On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 00:01, Lee Revell wrote:
> This issue came up on the JACK (http://jackit.sf.net) mailing list. 
> Google was not helpful so I ask here.
> 
> JACK needs to know the CPU speed, in order to calculate the DSP load
> among other things.  It used to be a valid assumption that you could
> calculate it on startup and it would not change.

No it did not. It has never been a safe assumption. Even my old PC110
does APM non-linux assisted shifts between 8 16 and 33Mhz. In addition
there are boxes with dual CPU's and different multipliers - dual 
300/450's were not uncommon.

And thats before we even mention such things at hyped-threading.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-22 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-21 23:01 How is user space notified of CPU speed changes? Lee Revell
2004-10-22 11:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-10-22 14:12   ` Con Kolivas
2004-10-22 18:05   ` Lee Revell
2004-10-22 18:57     ` Andreas Dilger
2004-10-22 19:40     ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-22 19:46       ` Lee Revell
2004-10-22 20:28       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-22 21:46         ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-22 23:25       ` Lee Revell
2004-10-25 15:28         ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-23  5:10   ` Lee Revell
2004-10-23 10:53     ` Matthew Garrett
2004-10-23 21:19     ` Alan Cox
2004-10-23 22:42       ` Lee Revell
2004-10-23 23:17         ` Jon Masters
2004-10-24  1:40           ` Lee Revell
2004-10-24 14:02         ` Alan Cox
2004-10-26  2:38           ` Lee Revell
2004-10-26  4:05           ` Lee Revell
2004-10-23 23:35       ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 23:36         ` Jon Masters
2004-10-24 14:04         ` Alan Cox
2004-10-25  5:53         ` Joel Becker
2004-10-24 20:02     ` Robert Love
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2004-10-23 23:54       ` Andi Kleen

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