Li, Aubrey wrote:
> 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.

I believe that we already have a couple of x86 only statistics in 
cpu_info. No problem adding these.

> 
> 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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