cpufreq userspace governor does not reflect changes

["Dhaval Giani" <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>]

Hey there,

I finally managed to get cpufreq working. And while using the
userspace governor, I came up with a curious output.

[root@localhost cpufreq]# cat *
0
1862000
1596000
1862000 1596000
ondemand userspace performance
1862000
acpi-cpufreq
userspace
1862000
1596000
1862000
cat: stats: Is a directory
[root@localhost cpufreq]# echo 1596000 > scaling_setspeed
[root@localhost cpufreq]# cat *
0
1862000
1596000
1862000 1596000
ondemand userspace performance
0
acpi-cpufreq
userspace
1862000
1596000
0
cat: stats: Is a directory
[root@localhost cpufreq]#

This is on a Core 2 Duo E6300 processor. The dmesg looks like this,

cpufreq-core: setting new policy for CPU 0: 1596000 - 1862000 kHz
acpi-cpufreq: acpi_cpufreq_verify
freq-table: request for verification of policy (1596000 - 1862000 kHz) for cpu 0
freq-table: verification lead to (1596000 - 1862000 kHz) for cpu 0
acpi-cpufreq: acpi_cpufreq_verify
freq-table: request for verification of policy (1596000 - 1862000 kHz) for cpu 0
freq-table: verification lead to (1596000 - 1862000 kHz) for cpu 0
cpufreq-core: new min and max freqs are 1596000 - 1862000 kHz
cpufreq-core: governor switch
cpufreq-core: __cpufreq_governor for CPU 0, event 2
cpufreq-core: __cpufreq_governor for CPU 0, event 1
userspace: managing cpu 0 started (1596000 - 1862000 kHz, currently 1862000 kHz)
cpufreq-core: governor: change or update limits
cpufreq-core: __cpufreq_governor for CPU 0, event 3
userspace: limit event for cpu 0: 1596000 - 1862000 kHz,currently
1862000 kHz, last set to 1862000 kHz
cpufreq-core: target for CPU 0: 1862000 kHz, relation 0
acpi-cpufreq: acpi_cpufreq_target 1862000 (0)
freq-table: request for target 1862000 kHz (relation: 0) for cpu 0
freq-table: target is 0 (1862000 kHz, 0)
acpi-cpufreq: Already at target state (P0)
printk: 30 messages suppressed.
userspace: cpufreq_set for cpu 0, freq 1596000 kHz
cpufreq-core: target for CPU 0: 1596000 kHz, relation 0
acpi-cpufreq: acpi_cpufreq_target 1596000 (0)
freq-table: request for target 1596000 kHz (relation: 0) for cpu 0
freq-table: target is 1 (1596000 kHz, 9)
cpufreq-core: notification 0 of frequency transition to 0 kHz
userspace: saving cpu_cur_freq of cpu 0 to be 0 kHz
cpufreq-core: notification 1 of frequency transition to 0 kHz
userspace: saving cpu_cur_freq of cpu 0 to be 0 kHz
[root@localhost cpufreq]#

How can I verify what is the processor speed I'm running at? And is
this the result expected? (Also is this how I change the frequency in
a multi-core system? Googling did not really get me anything) As a
side note, I'm also curious to know whether multi core systems support
the processors running at multiple clock speeds? (Somewhere I remember
understanding the code to add all the processors to be added to
affected_cpus map, and if any cpu in that one is affected, all of them
are. Did i understand it right?)

Thanks and regards
Dhaval Giani