Re: [RFC v2 0/3][TESTS] LAB: Support for Legacy Application Booster governor - tests results

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon May 27 2013 - 15:40:15 EST


On Monday, May 27, 2013 06:54:49 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 27 May 2013 17:30, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Well, this really looks like software turbo modes, so let's call them
> > "TURBO" instead of "OVERDRIVE"
>
> Yes, it looks better.
>
> > and I seem to remember having a switch for
> > disabling/enabling turbo modes already.
>
> This was added in intel_pstate driver and shows up in
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ directory..
>
> But this feature belongs to a governor instance and so
> will be present inside governor directory..
>
> Specially for big LITTLE we want it to be per policy
> specific. So may need to add a new one.

I was talking about /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost that appears to
have been added by commit 615b730 (acpi-cpufreq: Add support for disabling
dynamic overclocking).

That's in acpi-cpufreq, but since that setting seems to be generally useful,
it may be a good idea to move it to the core somehow.

Thanks,
Rafael


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