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authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>2009-02-04 11:54:04 +0100
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2009-02-24 22:47:31 -0500
commit9411b4ef7fcb534fe1582fe02738254e398dd931 (patch)
tree86b7fcf2f085427fc3ea2b7f51527a0af7e6e1df
parent57f4fa699195b761cbea90db5e38b4bc15610c7c (diff)
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
The same info can be obtained via the transition_latency sysfs file Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt10
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c15
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c17
3 files changed, 40 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
index 5b0cfa67aff..9b1851297d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
@@ -119,8 +119,14 @@ want the kernel to look at the CPU usage and to make decisions on
what to do about the frequency. Typically this is set to values of
around '10000' or more.
-show_sampling_rate_(min|max): the minimum and maximum sampling rates
-available that you may set 'sampling_rate' to.
+show_sampling_rate_(min|max): THIS INTERFACE IS DEPRECATED, DON'T USE IT.
+You can use wider ranges now and the general
+cpuinfo_transition_latency variable (cmp. with user-guide.txt) can be
+used to obtain exactly the same info:
+show_sampling_rate_min = transtition_latency * 500 / 1000
+show_sampling_rate_max = transtition_latency * 500000 / 1000
+(divided by 1000 is to illustrate that sampling rate is in us and
+transition latency is exported ns).
up_threshold: defines what the average CPU usage between the samplings
of 'sampling_rate' needs to be for the kernel to make a decision on
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
index c6b3c6a02fc..0912d7ca8cd 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
@@ -140,11 +140,26 @@ static struct notifier_block dbs_cpufreq_notifier_block = {
/************************** sysfs interface ************************/
static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_max(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
{
+ static int print_once;
+
+ if (!print_once) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: conservative sampling_rate_max "
+ "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n",
+ current->comm);
+ print_once = 1;
+ }
return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", MAX_SAMPLING_RATE);
}
static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_min(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
{
+ static int print_once;
+
+ if (!print_once) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: conservative sampling_rate_max "
+ "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n", current->comm);
+ print_once = 1;
+ }
return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", MIN_SAMPLING_RATE);
}
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
index 1fa4420eb33..32ddeaa4224 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
#include <linux/tick.h>
#include <linux/ktime.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
/*
* dbs is used in this file as a shortform for demandbased switching
@@ -203,11 +204,27 @@ static void ondemand_powersave_bias_init(void)
/************************** sysfs interface ************************/
static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_max(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
{
+ static int print_once;
+
+ if (!print_once) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: ondemand sampling_rate_max "
+ "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n",
+ current->comm);
+ print_once = 1;
+ }
return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", MAX_SAMPLING_RATE);
}
static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_min(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
{
+ static int print_once;
+
+ if (!print_once) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: ondemand sampling_rate_min "
+ "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n",
+ current->comm);
+ print_once = 1;
+ }
return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", MIN_SAMPLING_RATE);
}