linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate: fix Active Mode w/o HWP paragraph

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Date:   Tue, 08 May 2018 11:36:44 -0700
From:   Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate: fix Active
 Mode w/o HWP paragraph

On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 17:12 +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
> P-state selection algorithm (powersave or performance) is selected by
> echoing the desired choice to scaling_governor sysfs attribute and
> not
> to scaling_cur_freq (as currently stated).
> 
> Fix it.
Thanks for the fix.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>


> 
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
> b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
> index d2b6fda3d67b..ab2fe0eda1d7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
> @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ feature enabled.]
>  
>  In this mode ``intel_pstate`` registers utilization update callbacks
> with the
>  CPU scheduler in order to run a P-state selection algorithm, either
> -``powersave`` or ``performance``, depending on the
> ``scaling_cur_freq`` policy
> +``powersave`` or ``performance``, depending on the
> ``scaling_governor`` policy
>  setting in ``sysfs``.  The current CPU frequency information to be
> made
>  available from the ``scaling_cur_freq`` policy attribute in
> ``sysfs`` is
>  periodically updated by those utilization update callbacks too.