On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 14:43 +0530, Shilpasri G Bhat wrote:

Create a sysfs 'throttle' attribute per-chip(per-numa-node) to reflect
the throttle state of the chip. The usersapce programs can poll on
this attribute to keep an eye on the throttle state. Currently we
print a log message to notify the user of throttling event. The
performance-sensitive applications can monitor the throttle state
using this attribute.

Performance sensitive applications can *poll* on a sysfs file, which does a
loop over all chips and potentially spams the console with pr_crit() messages ?

That does not sound like a recipe for success.

What problem are we actually trying to solve here?

cheers