Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:43:00 +0100 | From | Padraig Brady <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.5.35] CPU frequency and voltage scaling (0/5) |
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Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Hi Linus, hpa, lkml, > > The following patches add CPU frequency and volatage scaling > support (Intel SpeedStep, AMD PowerNow, etc.) to kernel 2.5.35. > > As was discussed last time, the cpufreq patches have been reworked to use a > policy-based approach now. A cpufreq policy consists of four values: > cpu - the affected CPU nr., or CPUFREQ_ALL_CPUS for all cpus > min - minimum frequency in kHz > max - maximum frequency in kHz > policy - CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE or CPUFREQ_POLICY_POWERSAVE >
This is much better, but I preferred Dave Jones' suggestion of supporting stackable policies as I can see no end to them: max_cpu_temp, temp_hysteresis, favor_fast_{fsb,multiplier}, ...
Pádraig.
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