[Bug 29522] New: Unable to use any kind of frequency scaling

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           Summary: Unable to use any kind of frequency scaling
           Product: Power Management
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 2.6.38-rc5
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: cpufreq
        AssignedTo: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
        ReportedBy: rbrito@ime.usp.br
        Regression: No


Hi.

I have a Pentium D 805 with a Gigabyte motherboard that is only able to reduce
its speed with p4-clockmod and with the userspace governor (with the help of
the powernowd daemon controlling it), not with the ondemand/conservative (since
these modules say---correctly---that the latency is too high for them).

Since I see that p4-clockmod is frowned upon, I would like to get this fixed.

Is there anything that I could help with so that this could get fixed?


Thanks,

Rogério Brito.


P.S.: Right now, I am compiling a new kernel (from Linus git tree, up-to-date)
with the following change, just to see its behaviour:

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static int cpufreq_p4_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy
*policy)

        /* the transition latency is set to be 1 higher than the maximum
         * transition latency of the ondemand governor */
-       policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = 10000001;
+       policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = 100000;
        policy->cur = stock_freq;

        return cpufreq_frequency_table_cpuinfo(policy, &p4clockmod_table[0]);

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