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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-25 17:30:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-25 17:30:53 +0100 |
| commit | 0b9e31e9264f1bad89856afb96da1688292f13b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a9e9b6456dce993efeed8734de0a15a1f16ae94 /Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | |
| parent | cf82ff7ea7695b0e82ba07bc5e9f1bd03a74e1aa (diff) | |
| parent | 964fe080d94db82a3268443e9b9ece4c60246414 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Conflicts:
fs/proc/array.c
Merge reason: resolve conflict and queue up dependent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt index 5d5f5fadd1c2..2a5b850847c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt @@ -176,7 +176,9 @@ scaling_governor, and by "echoing" the name of another work on some specific architectures or processors. -cpuinfo_cur_freq : Current speed of the CPU, in KHz. +cpuinfo_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU as obtained from + the hardware, in KHz. This is the frequency + the CPU actually runs at. scaling_available_frequencies : List of available frequencies, in KHz. @@ -196,7 +198,10 @@ related_cpus : List of CPUs that need some sort of frequency scaling_driver : Hardware driver for cpufreq. -scaling_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU, in KHz. +scaling_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU as determined by + the governor and cpufreq core, in KHz. This is + the frequency the kernel thinks the CPU runs + at. If you have selected the "userspace" governor which allows you to set the CPU operating frequency to a specific value, you can read out |