Bug#614256: Add workaround for slow transitioning CPUs

2011-03-07 Thread Fabien C.
Hello, This bug has been reported on the kernel bugtracker : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30712 Fabien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#614256: Add workaround for slow transitioning CPUs

2011-02-22 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:49:42AM +0100, Fabien C. wrote: No, I meant that those numbers were really a power saving failure :) Why? because the ondemand governor not keeping up with demand doesn't sound like a big success to me. cheers -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#614256: Add workaround for slow transitioning CPUs

2011-02-21 Thread Fabien C.
No, I meant that those numbers were really a power saving failure :) Why? Alright, let me add something like that (I may rename vaariables) on the next upload. No problem :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#614256: Add workaround for slow transitioning CPUs

2011-02-21 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 06:35:53PM +0100, Fabien C. wrote: Package: cpufrequtils Version: 007-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, Some CPUs (particularly from AMD) have a very high latency for frequency changes. This is visible at the user level and can lead the user to change

Bug#614256: Add workaround for slow transitioning CPUs

2011-02-21 Thread Fabien C.
Here is the bad guy: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Down freq: 1000MHz / Up freq: 2200MHz /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate:109000 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate_min:10900

Bug#614256: Add workaround for slow transitioning CPUs

2011-02-21 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:06:35PM +0100, Fabien C. wrote: ... Here are my results in GB/s (several averages) for the AMD CPU: ... but this looks really awful in terms of powersaving. Why? Because sampling often is power consuming? No, I meant that those numbers were really a power saving

Bug#614256: Add workaround for slow transitioning CPUs

2011-02-20 Thread Fabien C.
Package: cpufrequtils Version: 007-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, Some CPUs (particularly from AMD) have a very high latency for frequency changes. This is visible at the user level and can lead the user to change it's cpufreq governor to performance, thus wasting energy. This is