On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:14:08 -0500 Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote: > > latency. If your app cant take any latency, you should set those... and > > the side effect is that the kernel will not do long-latency C-states or > > P-state transitions.. > .. > > I don't mind the cpufreq changing (actually, I want it to drop in cpugfreq > to save power and keep the fan off), but the C-states just kill this app. semi-OT: I was finding that disabling cpufreq altogether on the Vaio speeds up `quilt push 1000' by a lot - around 30% iirc. There do seem to be some unsophisticated decisions in there and we're losing quite a bit of performance as a result. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html