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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.32] CPU frequency and voltage scaling (0/4)
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:53:40AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > >  { min-Hz, max-Hz, policy }
 > For a few of the processors "event-hz" or similar would be nice. The
 > Geode supports hardware assisted bursting to full processor speed when
 > doing SMM, I/O and IRQ handling.

If we do implement (for sake of argument) /proc/sys/performance or
whatever, changing the cpufreq interface so it performs 'stacking'
would be a good idea too.
Eg, on a K6-3+ system, we could do cpu scaling and chipset throttling
just by doing a echo "min" > /proc/sys/perf or whatever, and have
the code call 'chains' of performance related features.

Comments? 

        Dave
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