[PATCH v2] power: add unpriv. read of turbo % for pstate
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Oct 10 02:54:06 CEST 2022
25/08/2022 20:22, 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 updates should include the sysfs interface
> for this (I only looked this up for CentOS 7).
>
> Tested-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
> Acked-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil at tu-ilmenau.de>
Applied, thanks.
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