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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, cpufreq <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:27:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133803651.21641.53.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051205172513.GB12664@redhat.com>

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:25 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:02:24PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
>  > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:16:11PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > I can't think of a single valid reason why a program would want
>  > > to know the MHz rating of a CPU. Given that it's a) approximate,
>  > > b) subject to change due to power management, c) completely nonsensical
>  > > across CPU vendors, and d) only one of many variables regarding CPU
>  > > performance, any program that bases any decision on the values found
>  > > by parsing that field of /proc/cpuinfo is utterly broken beyond belief.
>  > 
>  > If you want a userspace governor to change the CPU speed, you need to
>  > export the value to userland. 
> 
> We have sysfs files for that.
> 

OK thanks.  Last time I asked on LKML about it (~ 6 months ago) I was
told there's no sysfs interface yet.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-05 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-02 18:13 [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-12-02 18:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-02 18:43   ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-12-04 16:43     ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-12-04 18:32       ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-04 19:49         ` Lee Revell
2005-12-04 20:13           ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-04 21:01           ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-05  1:16           ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 13:02             ` Erik Mouw
2005-12-05 17:25               ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 17:27                 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-12-06 11:13                 ` Erik Mouw
2005-12-06 16:56                   ` Dave Jones
2005-12-06 17:35                     ` Erik Mouw
2005-12-05 15:32             ` Lee Revell
2005-12-05 18:36               ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-05 15:59             ` Mark Lord
2005-12-05 17:26               ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 16:29             ` Avi Kivity
2005-12-05 16:46               ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-05 17:27               ` Dave Jones

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