On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 14:43 +0530, Shilpasri G Bhat wrote: > Create a sysfs 'throttle' attribute per-chip(per-numa-node) to reflect > the throttle state of the chip. The usersapce programs can poll on > this attribute to keep an eye on the throttle state. Currently we > print a log message to notify the user of throttling event. The > performance-sensitive applications can monitor the throttle state > using this attribute.
Performance sensitive applications can *poll* on a sysfs file, which does a loop over all chips and potentially spams the console with pr_crit() messages ? That does not sound like a recipe for success. What problem are we actually trying to solve here? cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
