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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Dynamic frequency governor
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:00:36 -0700
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To: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
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On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:14, Moore, Robert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been chartered to implement a multi-state algorithm for Linux;
> this will be a new governor that adjusts the CPU frequency based upon
> percent CPU utilization as reported from the kernel idle handler.
> 
> Has any work been done (or is being done) in this area?  I don't want to
> rewrite the wheel.

Speedfreq (http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/speedfreq) does this in
userspace.  I'm not sure there's much win in putting it into the kernel,
but a better idle measurement would be nice (I use /proc/uptime, which
can only be reliably polled a couple of times a second).

	J