Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:49:21 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: add sysfs knob for toggling core performance boost |
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:27:43PM -0800
> The lack of any changelog in a patch is usually a good sign that the > patch needs a changelog :(
See my earlier mail.
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> Well I've read the code and I've read the code comments and I've read > the changelogs and I still have no clue what this thing does. > Apparently it allows me to toggle something called "APERF/MPERF". I > guess if I were patient enough, teh goog might tell me what that is, > and why I might want it. But this is all terribly inefficient. > > I think you'd find that your feature is more useful and will be used by > more people if you tell them (and us) what it does.
Basically, this is a knob for toggling of a core boosting feature we have in Fam10h, rev.E CPUs. I'll have a proper changelog with a hopefully understandable explanation soon :).
Thanks.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Operating Systems Research Center
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