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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst index 3950583f2b15..cacb9f0307dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ are the following: present). The existence of the limit may be a result of some (often unintentional) - BIOS settings, restrictions coming from a service processor or another + BIOS settings, restrictions coming from a service processor or other BIOS/HW-based mechanisms. This does not cover ACPI thermal limitations which can be discovered @@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ are the following: extension on ARM). If one cannot be determined, this attribute should not be present. - Note, that failed attempt to retrieve current frequency for a given - CPU(s) will result in an appropriate error, i.e: EAGAIN for CPU that + Note that failed attempt to retrieve current frequency for a given + CPU(s) will result in an appropriate error, i.e.: EAGAIN for CPU that remains idle (raised on ARM). ``cpuinfo_max_freq`` @@ -398,7 +398,9 @@ policy limits change after that. This governor does not do anything by itself. Instead, it allows user space to set the CPU frequency for the policy it is attached to by writing to the -``scaling_setspeed`` attribute of that policy. +``scaling_setspeed`` attribute of that policy. Though the intention may be to +set an exact frequency for the policy, the actual frequency may vary depending +on hardware coordination, thermal and power limits, and other factors. ``schedutil`` ------------- @@ -499,7 +501,7 @@ This governor exposes the following tunables: represented by it to be 1.5 times as high as the transition latency (the default):: - # echo `$(($(cat cpuinfo_transition_latency) * 3 / 2)) > ondemand/sampling_rate + # echo `$(($(cat cpuinfo_transition_latency) * 3 / 2))` > ondemand/sampling_rate ``up_threshold`` If the estimated CPU load is above this value (in percent), the governor |