notify userland about C-state changes

[Sean Bruno]

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 06:08 -0700, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > 
> > So quick question, does this happen a lot on a system with a
> sporadic
> > workload?  Does this introduce overhead to the system to service the
> > notification requests?
> 
> I am not sure who can answer this question.  It is up to ACPI platform
> to decide
> when it changes _available C-states_.  OS doesn't have control over
> that.
> 
Hrm ... what changes to the machine would make this happen while the
machine is running?  things like the switching from battery to line
power?


> P.S.  I hope you haven't confused this notification for a notification
> about
> _current_ C-state changing. 

I did have it confused.  Thanks for putting this note in.

Sean