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[CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency 

It's not only useful for the ondemand and conservative governors, but
also for userspace daemons to know about the HW transition latency of
the CPU.
It is especially useful for userspace to know about this value when
the ondemand or conservative governors are run. The sampling rate
control value depends on it and for userspace being able to set sane
tuning values there it has to know about the transition latency.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Thomas Renninger 2009-02-04 01:17:41 +01:00 committed by Dave Jones
parent 0e64a0c982
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Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
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@ -152,6 +152,18 @@ cpuinfo_min_freq : this file shows the minimum operating
frequency the processor can run at(in kHz)
cpuinfo_max_freq : this file shows the maximum operating
frequency the processor can run at(in kHz)
cpuinfo_transition_latency The time it takes on this CPU to
switch between two frequencies in nano
seconds. If unknown or known to be
that high that the driver does not
work with the ondemand governor, -1
(CPUFREQ_ETERNAL) will be returned.
Using this information can be useful
to choose an appropriate polling
frequency for a kernel governor or
userspace daemon. Make sure to not
switch the frequency too often
resulting in performance loss.
scaling_driver : this file shows what cpufreq driver is
used to set the frequency on this CPU

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drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
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@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ static ssize_t show_##file_name \
show_one(cpuinfo_min_freq, cpuinfo.min_freq);
show_one(cpuinfo_max_freq, cpuinfo.max_freq);
show_one(cpuinfo_transition_latency, cpuinfo.transition_latency);
show_one(scaling_min_freq, min);
show_one(scaling_max_freq, max);
show_one(scaling_cur_freq, cur);
@ -659,6 +660,7 @@ __ATTR(_name, 0644, show_##_name, store_##_name)
define_one_ro0400(cpuinfo_cur_freq);
define_one_ro(cpuinfo_min_freq);
define_one_ro(cpuinfo_max_freq);
define_one_ro(cpuinfo_transition_latency);
define_one_ro(scaling_available_governors);
define_one_ro(scaling_driver);
define_one_ro(scaling_cur_freq);
@ -672,6 +674,7 @@ define_one_rw(scaling_setspeed);
static struct attribute *default_attrs[] = {
&cpuinfo_min_freq.attr,
&cpuinfo_max_freq.attr,
&cpuinfo_transition_latency.attr,
&scaling_min_freq.attr,
&scaling_max_freq.attr,
&affected_cpus.attr,