Re: [PATCH 2/2] i7300_idle driver v1.55

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Oct 21 2008 - 18:16:13 EST


Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> Thanks for the review. Some comments below.
>
> Thanks,
> Venki
>
>> What is debugfs used for? any docs for it?
>
> It has some statistics about how many times we went
> into "memory throttling" state and how long we stayed
> there since the boot. And one tunable that tunes a
> parameter changing the policy to start throttling.
> Will document this with an update patch.

"Normal" tunables should be in sysfs, not debugfs.
Or is this just a debugging tunable?

You surely can't be certain (or require) that debugfs
be available.

~Randy
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