Re: [PATCH 2/2 V2] CPUFreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus for acpi-freq driver

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On 2013年06月27日 13:24, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 26 June 2013 18:08, Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/acpi-cpufreq.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/acpi-cpufreq.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..9c59d09
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/acpi-cpufreq.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
>> +Sysfs interface
>> +---------------------------
>> +(Interface locates in the directory /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/cpufreq)
>> +
>> +freqdomain_cpus :               List of Online + Offline CPUs in same CPU dependency
>> +                                domain.
>> +
> 
> Apart from the comments from Rafael, this must be described a bit
> more. We must write here how is it different than related_cpus.
> 
> Write: freqdomain_cpus are the list of cpus (online+offline) that share
> same clock/freq domain at hardware level. This information might
> be hidden from cpufreq core and so related_cpus can have different
> value compared to this. This is not used by kernel but userspace
> DVFS controllers to get better power/performance values for platforms
> using acpi-cpufreq.c driver.
> 
Thanks for your comments. I will add this in my patch.


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Tianyu Lan
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