[Fwd: Re: Frequency scaling not working]

[Aaron Konstam]

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From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Frequency scaling not working
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:01:47 -0600

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 15:32 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > However, I see only the cpuspeeds (5 of them) displayed by:
> > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> > So why are there 8 throttle settings? What setting would give me no
> > throttling? It is a mystery.
> > 
> You may want to read the documentation in Documentation/cpu-freq in
> the kernel docs. It covers this. A lot of how you can set things
> depends on the "governor" you select to control CPU speed. For your
> use, you should probably select "performance".

I will probbably regret asking this, but where do you find:
Documentation/cpu-freq
What kernel docs are you referring to?

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I was right I immediately regretted asking the above question since I found the 
section referred to.

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