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From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@gmail.com,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
	"Arjan van de Ven\"" <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
	Aeolus Yang <Aeolus.Yang@atheros.com>,
	Amod Bodas <Amod.Bodas@atheros.com>,
	David Quan <David.Quan@atheros.com>,
	Kishore Jotwani <Kishore.Jotwani@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu-freq: add troubleshooting section for FSB changes
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:10:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911072210.01619.trenn@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911072152.57596.trenn@suse.de>

On Saturday 07 November 2009 09:52:56 pm Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Friday 06 November 2009 09:01:00 pm Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > With cpu frequency scaling you may run into some system
> > performance issues when the FSB changes speed due to the
> > throughput constraints this brings on the system.
>
> Interesting.
> Could you be a bit more detailed how and what kind of perfomance issues are
> seen, please.
> I expect IO based issues like WLAN package throughput or even lost
> connections :) "wireless" is also a good word to grep for...
> If this gets documented also a bit more info about the HW should get
> added. The problem sounds rather restricted to specific models (atom based,
> laptop, desktop chipsets?)?
Or whatabout adding a list of affected machine/chipset models. The ordinary
user will hardly find his IO throughput problem in:
Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
Then a lot of people will be happy when starting to google for their HW.

     Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-07 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 20:01 [PATCH] cpu-freq: add troubleshooting section for FSB changes Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-07 20:52 ` Thomas Renninger
2009-11-07 21:10   ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2009-11-07 22:28   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-07 22:47     ` Thomas Renninger
2009-11-07 22:59       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-08  0:54         ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-09 16:32         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-10 12:12           ` Corrado Zoccolo
2009-11-13 17:18             ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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