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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-09-14 18:24:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-09-14 18:24:00 +0200 |
| commit | 83bd6998b04fc1bb7280b14f16b2bdbdc07c914b (patch) | |
| tree | af1bbe2bac5752b69b1ac58bf5d822c735da439b /Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt | |
| parent | e7250b8ae3870f37f660c2f65cafcaba85e3bfd3 (diff) | |
| parent | adee14b2e1557d0a8559f29681732d05a89dfc35 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into timers/hpet
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diff --git a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt index 49adb1a33514..c40866e8b957 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -PM quality of Service interface. +PM Quality Of Service Interface. This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ one of the parameters. Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as the initial set of pm_qos parameters. +Each parameters have defined units: + * latency: usec + * timeout: usec + * throughput: kbs (kilo bit / sec) + The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented parameter. The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init() and pm_qos_params.h. This is done because having the available parameters |
