Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:56:00 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86, amd: add accessor for number of cores per compute unit |
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 02:24:08PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > That is a matter of driver implementation. Very commonly hwmon drivers > implement value caching, where data from the device is only read at > minimum intervals, and the cached values are reported if the information > is polled too rapidly.
I don't see how we can use cached values in that case as they'd be basically a lie as to how much power the CU/processor has consumed. I guess it would be fairer to the user to warn instead and not issue any values or to simply delay the read to a min timeout...
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