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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: 俞颐超 <yyc1992@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mistake about the cpufreq?
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:55:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110705175508.GC30531@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimgadBqULuQXVdr-=e792b6RZLQSg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:17:08PM -0400, 俞颐超 wrote:

> So after reading the files in cpu-freq/, I saw it was mentioned in
> user-guide.txt that the scaling_ ones is what the kernel thinks the
> freq is and cpuinfo is the actual freq.
> y can these two be different?

Many systems don't have independently clockable cores. In that case the 
cpu will run at the speed of the highest clocked core.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-01 20:00 mistake about the cpufreq? 俞颐超
2011-07-02  1:17 ` 俞颐超
2011-07-05 17:55   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]

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