From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757474AbZBTRji (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:39:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753654AbZBTRj2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:39:28 -0500 Received: from zelda.netsplit.com ([87.194.19.211]:51790 "EHLO zelda.netsplit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753026AbZBTRj1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:39:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules From: Scott James Remnant To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Ingo Molnar , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090220173637.GA1985@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090218182822.GA19902@srcf.ucam.org> <20090218183137.GD26802@elte.hu> <20090218183641.GA20203@srcf.ucam.org> <1235150992.6467.66.camel@quest> <20090220173637.GA1985@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-TbZY73IiJO43jGx+K8Vw" Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:39:35 +0000 Message-Id: <1235151575.6467.68.camel@quest> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-TbZY73IiJO43jGx+K8Vw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 17:36 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:29:52PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: >=20 > > In fact, we've noticed severe regressions with p4-clockmod over simply > > having no scaling driver at all - and are not going to built it into ou= r > > kernels. >=20 > It makes sense to have p4-clockmod from a thermal management=20 > perspective. We should probably bump its transition latency to more than=20 > 10ms to prevent ondemand binding to it. >=20 If that's possible; that'd be good. The trouble with it is that it never seems to bring the CPU anywhere near maximum performance. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com --=-TbZY73IiJO43jGx+K8Vw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkme6tcACgkQSnQiFMl4yK5RmgCfZGNhQLhwJYJSBeOPRl7q6ioK UQ0An3kJdrdX9bRWHKFc5CMDovVHajKR =CxaL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TbZY73IiJO43jGx+K8Vw--