[Cbe-oss-dev] powerpc/cell/cpufreq: add spu aware cpufreq governor
Dave Jones
davej at codemonkey.org.uk
Wed Jul 9 13:57:19 EST 2008
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:41:38PM +1000, Ben Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 11:27 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:43:43AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Monday 07 July 2008, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > One question I do have though, is how userspace scripts are supposed
> > > > to know they're to echo cbe_spu_governor into the relevant parts of
> > > > sysfs. I've not used anything with a cell. Do they expose the SPUs
> > > > as regular CPUs, or do they show up in a different part of the tree?
> > >
> > > An SPU is very different from a CPU from the user perspective.
> > > SPUs show up in /sys/devices/system/spus, and if a user wants to access
> > > them, the "spufs" file system needs to be mounted in the system, by
> > > convention on /spu.
> >
> > Ok, that should be fairly simple to write scripts for.
> > All sounds good to me.
>
> Can I add your Acked-by ?
Absolutely.
ACKed-by: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Dave
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