On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:51:40 -0500 (EST) Jaroslav Skarvada <[email protected]> wrote:
> PowerTOP should not recommend ondemand when p4-clockmod is used. > AFAIK the p4-clockmod is autoloaded for thermal purposes, but the > latency is too high for ondemand. There is RH bugzilla on it: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497167 > > Proposed patch is attached. The idea is not to suggest ondemand > if there is at least one p4-clockmod driver found as the > suggestion is: "Enable the ondemand cpu speed governor for all > processors...". > > Jaroslav kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig says that p4-clockmod shouldn't be used at all, SpeedStep should be used instead, which would be the acpi-cpufreq driver, right? So maybe powertop should suggest using that (if CPU supports it) instead of p4-clockmod? Best regards, --Edwin _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
