linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] hwmon: (fam15h_power) Introduce a cpu accumulated power reporting algorithm

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:28:48 +0800
From:	Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>, <linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <spg_linux_kernel@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] hwmon: (fam15h_power) Introduce a cpu accumulated
 power reporting algorithm

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:33:27AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:32:14PM +0800, Huang Rui wrote:
> >  
> >  	return 0;
> > @@ -330,6 +446,9 @@ static int fam15h_power_init_data(struct pci_dev *f4,
> >  
> >  	data->max_cu_acc_power = tmp;
> >  
> > +	/* set default interval as 10 ms */
> 
> Because...?
> 

I checked with HW designer, milliseconds is also a reasonable interval of acc power.
And I cannot set too long here, because several seconds will cause the
read function to hang for that period of time.

So I pick 10ms here, and actually, we can update the interval at
/etc/sensors3.conf

chip "fam15h_power-*"
        set power1_average_interval 0.01

Thanks,
Rui