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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
	Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CPU frequency shifting "problems"
Date: 28 Sep 2001 14:29:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m11ykr5a9y.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109280902250.1682-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109280902250.1682-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> What does exist is the bus clock (well, a multiple of it, but you get the
> idea), and that one is stable. I bet PCI devices don't like to be randomly
> driven at frequencies "somewhere between 12 and 33MHz" depending on load ;)

I doubt they would like it but it is perfectly legal (PCI spec..) to
vary the pci clock, depending upon load.   


Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-28 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-25 17:49 Locking comment on shrink_caches() Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 19:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 18:40   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:40     ` Josh MacDonald
2001-09-25 19:25       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:15   ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 19:02     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:24     ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 22:26       ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 17:42         ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-25 20:28     ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 21:05       ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-25 21:48       ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 20:29     ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 21:00       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 22:03         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 21:55       ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 22:16         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 22:28         ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 16:40           ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 17:40               ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:44                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 18:01                   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-26 18:01                 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 20:20                 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26 20:24                   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26 17:45               ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 17:50               ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:59                 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 18:07                   ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 18:09                   ` Padraig Brady
2001-09-26 18:22                     ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 18:24                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 18:40                     ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 19:12                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 12:22                         ` CPU frequency shifting "problems" Padraig Brady
2001-09-27 12:44                           ` Dave Jones
2001-09-27 23:23                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28  0:55                             ` Alan Cox
2001-09-28  2:12                               ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-09-28  8:55                             ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-28 16:11                               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28 20:29                                 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2001-09-28 22:24                                   ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-26 19:04                     ` Locking comment on shrink_caches() George Greer
2001-09-26 18:59                 ` George Greer
2001-09-26 17:43             ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-26 18:24               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-26 18:48               ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-26 18:58                 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-26 23:26             ` David S. Miller
2001-09-27 12:10               ` Alan Cox
2001-09-27 15:38                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 17:44                   ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-27 19:41               ` David S. Miller
2001-09-27 22:59                 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-25 22:01     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 22:03     ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 22:59       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 21:57   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28  1:24 CPU frequency shifting "problems" Grover, Andrew
2001-09-28 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-29  0:37   ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-28 22:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-01  9:28 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-28 22:47 Grover, Andrew
2001-09-29  1:10 ` Gerhard Mack
     [not found] <8FB7D6BCE8A2D511B88C00508B68C2081971E4@orsmsx102.jf.intel.com>
2001-09-28 23:09 ` Alan Cox

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