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| author | Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> | 2009-02-04 11:54:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> | 2009-02-25 04:47:31 +0100 |
| commit | 9411b4ef7fcb534fe1582fe02738254e398dd931 (patch) | |
| tree | 86b7fcf2f085427fc3ea2b7f51527a0af7e6e1df /Documentation | |
| parent | [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI support (diff) | |
| download | linux-9411b4ef7fcb534fe1582fe02738254e398dd931.tar.xz linux-9411b4ef7fcb534fe1582fe02738254e398dd931.zip | |
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
The same info can be obtained via the transition_latency sysfs file
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt index 5b0cfa67aff9..9b1851297d4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt @@ -119,8 +119,14 @@ want the kernel to look at the CPU usage and to make decisions on what to do about the frequency. Typically this is set to values of around '10000' or more. -show_sampling_rate_(min|max): the minimum and maximum sampling rates -available that you may set 'sampling_rate' to. +show_sampling_rate_(min|max): THIS INTERFACE IS DEPRECATED, DON'T USE IT. +You can use wider ranges now and the general +cpuinfo_transition_latency variable (cmp. with user-guide.txt) can be +used to obtain exactly the same info: +show_sampling_rate_min = transtition_latency * 500 / 1000 +show_sampling_rate_max = transtition_latency * 500000 / 1000 +(divided by 1000 is to illustrate that sampling rate is in us and +transition latency is exported ns). up_threshold: defines what the average CPU usage between the samplings of 'sampling_rate' needs to be for the kernel to make a decision on |