Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add ABI entry for intel_pstate

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Jan 06 2014 - 06:09:40 EST


On Monday, January 06, 2014 02:01:17 PM Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Add a Documentation/ABI entry for
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct,
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct, and
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo.
>
> Cc: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linux PM <linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> index 468e4d4..7080718 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> @@ -200,3 +200,18 @@ Description: address and size of the percpu note.
> note of cpu#.
>
> crash_notes_size: size of the note of cpu#.
> +
> +
> +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct
> + /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
> + /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo

Well, can you please describe each of them separately? Like what each of them
actually does?

> +Date: February 2013
> +Contact: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +Description: Parameters for the Intel P-state driver
> +
> + Logic for selecting the current P-state in Intel
> + Sandybridge+ processors. The three knobs control
> + limits for the P-state that will be requested by the
> + driver.
> +
> + More details can be found in Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt

No, that's not enough.

Thanks!

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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