From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karol Kozimor Subject: Re: Re: Centrino speedstep Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:19:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20050110161959.GA9165@hell.org.pl> References: <41D4AA9F.7080200@mega.ist.utl.pt> <20041231082524.GA8312@dominikbrodowski.de> <16861.5376.560582.314813@aber.ac.uk> <20050106161440.GD10011@dominikbrodowski.de> <16862.25182.567350.575532@aber.ac.uk> <20050107105045.GA17839@dominikbrodowski.de> <16862.27881.864389.196313@aber.ac.uk> <20050107133022.GM19199@poupinou.org> <20050108010509.GA12131@hell.org.pl> <20050110132603.GN19199@poupinou.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050110132603.GN19199-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Bruno Ducrot Cc: Fred Labrosse , Dominik Brodowski , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Thus wrote Bruno Ducrot: > > > Actually you may save energy but only if you disable the L2 cache. I > > > don't think people want that ;) > > How is that? Could you elaborate? > If you disable L2 cache, then its no more true that the deadline of a > given task is linear to the frequency due to memory bottleneck. Ahh, this way around :) Yeah, I suppose nobody would want that :) Thanks, -- Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt