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On 23/09/2010, at 21:26, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 23/09/2010 11:26 Alexander Motin said the following:
>> PS: AFAIK dev.cpu.0.freq won't report you if frequency was lowered =
due
>> to overheating.
>=20
> I think that you are correct about this.
> And last I checked we simply ignored thermal throttling interrupt.

I could not get cpufreq to show a lower frequency when I tried =
overheating a CPU even though the performance dropped.

It would be really nice if there was some notification of CPU throttling =
:)

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