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From: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: david.hunt@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH] doc/power: add info on scale mode reaction time
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:53:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211124165300.31165-1-david.hunt@intel.com> (raw)

When using PMD Power Management, scale mode reacts slower than
monitor mode and pause mode. Add note in user guide to this
effect.

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/prog_guide/power_man.rst               | 4 +++-
 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_power_man.rst | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/power_man.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/power_man.rst
index e387d7811e..66592cf22f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/power_man.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/power_man.rst
@@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ power saving whenever empty poll count reaches a certain number.
 
 * Frequency scaling
    This power saving scheme will use ``librte_power`` library functionality to
-   scale the core frequency up/down depending on traffic volume.
+   scale the core frequency up/down depending on traffic volume. The reaction
+   time of the frequency scaling mode is longer than the pause and monitor
+   mode.
 
 The "monitor" mode is only supported in the following configurations and scenarios:
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_power_man.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_power_man.rst
index 8817eaadbf..84b014fab5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_power_man.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward_power_man.rst
@@ -345,8 +345,9 @@ and has three available power management schemes:
   to avoid busy looping when there is no traffic.
 
 ``scale``
-  This will use frequency scaling routines
-  available in the ``librte_power`` library.
+  This will use frequency scaling routines available in
+  the ``librte_power`` library. The reaction time of the
+  scale mode is longer than the pause and monitor mode.
 
 See :doc:`Power Management<../prog_guide/power_man>` chapter
 in the DPDK Programmer's Guide for more details on PMD power management.
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2021-11-24 17:10 UTC|newest]

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2021-11-24 16:53 David Hunt [this message]
2021-11-26 13:23 ` Thomas Monjalon

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