From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Improving High-Load Performance with the Ondemand Governor [PATCH ATTACHED] Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:46:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20100917064600.5d478658@infradead.org> References: <4C88EF04.1030908@verisign.com> <4C928094.7080207@verisign.com> <201009171125.44403.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201009171125.44403.trenn@suse.de> Sender: cpufreq-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Thomas Renninger Cc: David C Niemi , cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, discuss@lesswatts.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:25:44 +0200 Thomas Renninger wrote: > On the Opteron or Xeon system? That would mean that reducing frequency > from OS still is an important power consumption knob even on latest > Westmere systems. it is for staying out of the turbo range. the turbo range is not power efficient (but good for performance) below turbo, the actual impact is a LOT less.... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org