On 15.01.2025 06:33, Penny, Zheng wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> >> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2025 5:46 PM >> >> On 03.12.2024 09:11, Penny Zheng wrote: >>> In order to provide backward compatibility with existing governors >>> that represent performance as frequencies, like ondemand, the _CPC >>> table can optionally provide processor frequency range values, Lowest >>> frequency and Norminal frequency, to let OS use Lowest Frequency/ >>> Performance and Nominal Frequency/Performance as anchor points to >>> create linear mapping of CPPC abstract performance to CPU frequency. >>> >>> As Xen is uncapable of parsing the ACPI dynamic table, this commit >>> introduces a new sub-hypercall to get required CPPC data from >>> dom0 kernel. >> >> "get" as used both here and in the title is, to me, something an entity does >> actively. >> Xen is entirely passive here, though. (Reading the title I was first >> assuming this is >> about a sub-op to get certain data out of >> Xen.) > > How about "a new sub-hypercall to pass/deliver CPPC to Xen"? or any better > suggestions?
That or "propagate" or "report" (and perhaps there are yet more alternatives). Jan
