Frequency scaling not working

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> When I issue the commands above I get:
> [akonstam at cyrus ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling
> state count:             8
> active state:            T0
> state available: T0 to T7
> states:
>    *T0:                  00%
>     T1:                  12%
>     T2:                  25%
>     T3:                  37%
>     T4:                  50%
>     T5:                  62%
>     T6:                  75%
>     T7:                  87%
> [akonstam at cyrus ~]$
> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> 1867000 1600000 1333000 1067000 800000
> 
> Now the second set of numbers are the ones I actually see as cpu
> frequencies. The first makes no sense at all. Can any one explain the
> output?
> 
The T0 through T7 are throttle settings number 0 through 7. So you
would use a value of 4 to throttle the CPU to 50%. If hte CPU
supports only 3 different throttle settings, I would ounl expect to
see T0 through T3.

Mikkel
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