Frequency scaling not working

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> 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?

Documentation directory in the kernel source tree.

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