powerpc/cell/cpufreq: add spu aware cpufreq governor
Dave Jones
davej at codemonkey.org.uk
Wed Jul 9 01:27:28 EST 2008
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.
Dave
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