From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: About p4-clockmod breakage/removal Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 01:56:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20080514005636.GA21608@srcf.ucam.org> References: <48246C3E.7010608@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec> <200805132048.00653.lenb@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200805132048.00653.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Len Brown Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, Alex =?iso-8859-1?B?VmlsbGFj7a1z?= Lasso , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org