> > Arjan mentioned quite some time ago, that for modern X86 > processors it does not make much sense to control the > frequency of the CPU via OS, because idle states are > much more efficient and should get entered asap. well need to qualify that. it does not make sense to control the frequency the way we are doing, because during idle the frequency is zero (as is the voltage). ondemand logic has different assumptions. we have been reworking a new governer like thing inside Intel, and are close to publish it to lkml (and this list). the problem always is that there are many workloads and one shouldn't regress bla bla bla so this is needs a lot of data collection (which takes time) -- 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
