Re: About p4-clockmod breakage/removal

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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:48:00PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:

> Assuming this is a laptop with a batter,
> I'd certainly be interested if you could run BLTK
> and measure any benefit to p4-clockmod (I've never
> been able to)

The most plausible benefit to p4-clockmod is its utility in throttling 
the CPU if it would otherwise cause the system to overheat. From that 
point of view, I think it's worth keeping around - especially since not 
all machines expose T states via ACPI.

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