On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 03:56:33PM +0200, Corrado Zoccolo wrote: > The patch introduces a new sysfs tunable cpufreq/ondemand/freq_step, > as found in conservative governor, to chose the frequency increase step, > expressed as percentage (default = 100 is previous behaviour). > > This allows fine tuning powersaving on mobile CPUs, since smaller steps will allow to: > * absorb punctual load spikes > * stabilize at the needed frequency, without passing for more power consuming states, and Is this a measured powersaving? The ondemand model is based on the assumption that the idle state is disproportionately lower in power than any running state, and therefore it's more sensible to run flat out for short periods of time than run at half speed for longer. Is this inherently flawed, or is it an artifact of differences in your processor design? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
