Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:13:42 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo |
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:49:26PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 19:32 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:43:35PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > > > > The patch below changes this to: > > > > Show the last known frequency of the particular CPU, when cpufreq is present. If > > > > cpu doesnot support changing of frequency through cpufreq, then boot frequency > > > > will be shown. The patch affects i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures. > > > > > > Looks good to me -- however, might this affect userspace cpufreq tools? I'd > > > > They normally use /sys anyways. > > Wrong, lots of userspace programs that need to know the CPU speed get it > from /proc/cpuinfo. It would be nice if there were a better API.
Talking about user space governours - I presume that is what Dominik ment with "userspace cpufreq tools"
> As long as you don't change the file format it should be OK.
Great that we have your approval.
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