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Bug#619573: xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: cpufreq scaling in Dom0 does not work



On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 14:22 +0100, Michael Kuron wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I know that Dom0 is virtualized too, but
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/xenpm seems to suggest that the
> cpufreq=dom0-kernel Xen boot option allows you to do cpufreq scaling
> from the Dom0: "Domain0 based cpufreq reuse the domain0 kernel cpufreq
> code and let domain0 handle the cpufreq logic".

Oh, I wasn't aware that was an option.  But as the note says, it only
works if you set a 1-to-1 mapping between physical CPUs and vCPUs in
dom0.

> I've also tried cpufreq=xen (where the hypervisor is supposed to do
> cpufreq scaling), but that didn't work either as the xenpm command
> didn't appear to be able to do anything.
[...]

Why do you think that?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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