Re: [PATCH] acpi 2.6: consistent user-forced throttling (9/8) [Was: Re: [PATCHES] ACPI Processor update [idle, throttling, thermal, cpufreq]]

linux-JhLEnvuH02M
2003-09-10T12:53:47Z

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:54:24PM +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
> Am Mi, 2003-09-10 um 02.17 schrieb linux-JhLEnvuH02M@public.gmane.org:
> > As Pavel Machek has noted, it may be desireable for an user to force a
> > ceratin throttling level which is kept even if a thermal "decrease cooling"
> > commands are issued. So, save the user input, and make sure throttling is at
> > least set to this user_state
> [...]
>
> This makes sense! Thanks!
> Additionally also the performance setting should be kept like this. I
> always have the problem when having used passive cooling that on its way
> down from max-temp the CPU is forced into P0 whereas P1 would conserve
> power and cause less heat.
> Manually resetting to P1 just causes it to be reset to P0 after some
> seconds.

This is one of the "features" in my patchset :-)

Dominik

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