On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 05:40:36PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Some ARM platforms, such as the original Raspberry Pi, report the > CPU frequency in the BogoMIPS field of /proc/cpuinfo, so libvirt > parsed that field and returned it through its API. > > However, not only many more boards don't report any value there, > but several - including ARMv8-based server hardware, and even the > more recent Raspberry Pi 3 - use this field as originally intended: > to report the BogoMIPS value instead of the CPU frequency. > > Since we have no way of detecting how the field is being used, > it's better to report no information at all rather than something > ludicrous like "your shiny 96-core aarch64 virtualization host's > CPUs are running at a whopping 100 MHz". Can we perhaps get useful freq data from sysfs instead ? I know my x86 machines report freq there, but I'm unsure if that reporting is x86-specific or not. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
