Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/6] cpufreq: powernv: Add sysfs attributes to show throttle stats

From: Shilpasri G Bhat <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:24:52 +0530

On 01/28/2016 03:11 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 28-01-16, 15:06, Shilpasri G Bhat wrote:
>> No these stats are not per-policy. They are per-chip. The throttle event is
>> common for all cores in the chip.
> 
> How do you define a chip? And how is it different then the group of
> CPUs represented by the policy ?
> 

Chip is a group of policies.
Hmm yes I see your point. We anyways maintain frequency stats which is
per-policy. We might as well have throttle stats exported per-policy which
points to per-chip data.