Bill.Holler at Sun.COM wrote:

> It will be useful to have c-state information observable (including
> latency and power savings) during development and testing.  Should
> c-state information be in a kstat such as the cpu_info kstat?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill

Now p-state info in the kstat is architecture independent. Both SPARC
and X86 support speed transition.
Does SPARC support C-state?
If so, add the information to the kstat of cpu_info will be easy.

Thanks,
-Aubrey
> 
> 
> Li, Aubrey wrote:
>> Alexander Kolbasov wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Eric pointed to me that cpu_info kstats now contain both the current
>>> CPU frequency and the frequency range for each CPU. I hacked
>>> /usr/sbin/psrinfo a bit to show this information when running
>>> psrinfo -v. It shows output like this:
>>> 
>>> $ psrinfo -v
>>> Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 12/04/2007 17:55:03
>>>  on-line since 11/26/2007 15:06:47.
>>>  The i386 processor operates at
>>> [1596 MHz - 2660 MHz]
>>> 
>> 
>> It's not a range, but only several steps.
>> The suggested format is confused.
>> A format like supported_frequencies_Hz member of cpu_info may be
>> better, ;-) 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Aubrey
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