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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: Ivor Hewitt <ivor@ivor.org>
Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: starting governor ondemand failed
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:43:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050404124304.GA17732@isilmar.linta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42511A0B.1070008@ivor.org>

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:42:19AM +0100, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to have a play with the ondemand governor but I just get 
> the following logged when I try to switch to it:-
> 
> cpufreq-core: governor switch
> cpufreq-core: __cpufreq_governor for CPU 0, event 2
> userspace: managing cpu 0 stopped
> cpufreq-core: __cpufreq_governor for CPU 0, event 1
> cpufreq-core: starting governor ondemand failed
> cpufreq-core: __cpufreq_governor for CPU 0, event 1
> 
> This is on a PIIIM using the speedstep-smi interface.
> The cpu is only capable of switching between two frequencies, would this 
> prevent ondemand starting up?

This isn't the problem, but the following: we do not know how long 
transitions using speedstep-smi take, therefore we still need to assume
that it takes very long, thus making it unable to be used for ondemand
frequency switching.

	Dominik

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-04 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04 10:42 starting governor ondemand failed Ivor Hewitt
2005-04-04 12:43 ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2005-04-04 13:27   ` Ivor Hewitt
2005-04-04 13:50     ` Ivor Hewitt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-04 13:39 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2005-04-04 16:58 ` Bruno Ducrot

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