Re: [PATCH] power: add unpriv. read of turbo % for pstate

2022-08-25 Thread Hunt, David
Hi Markus, On 24/08/2022 20:28, Markus Theil wrote: If DPDK applications should be used with a minimal set of privileges, using the msr kernel module on linux should not be necessary. Since at least kernel 4.4 the rdmsr call to obtain the last non-turbo boost frequency can be left out, if the s

[PATCH] power: add unpriv. read of turbo % for pstate

2022-08-24 Thread Markus Theil
If DPDK applications should be used with a minimal set of privileges, using the msr kernel module on linux should not be necessary. Since at least kernel 4.4 the rdmsr call to obtain the last non-turbo boost frequency can be left out, if the sysfs interface is used. Also RHEL 7 with recent kernel