From: Dominik Brodowski <linux-X3ehHDuj6sIIGcDfoQAp7OTW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>
To: Felix Homann <fexpop-53koH/AXb86i2/dY4+mD5w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Centrino not scaling to lowest frequency
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:50:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050824105002.GC12792@dominikbrodowski.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508181847.48291.fexpop-53koH/AXb86i2/dY4+mD5w@public.gmane.org>
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:47:48PM +0200, Felix Homann wrote:
> On the other hand, in Windows I _do_ get 600 MHz without any further trickery.
> And at 600 MHz it seems to give me a lot more battery life, too. How does
> that work?
That's because other Operating Systems do "throttling" on top of "CPU
frequency scaling", even though that doesn't save you any energy. The better
energy usage rates of Windows are a known problem; hopefully the dynamic
tick patch will improve the situation in this regard.
Dominik
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-15 21:44 Centrino not scaling to lowest frequency Felix Homann
[not found] ` <200508152344.11572.fexpop-53koH/AXb86i2/dY4+mD5w@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-16 8:06 ` Dominik Brodowski
[not found] ` <20050816080625.GE9150-X3ehHDuj6sIIGcDfoQAp7BvVK+yQ3ZXh@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-18 16:47 ` Felix Homann
[not found] ` <200508181847.48291.fexpop-53koH/AXb86i2/dY4+mD5w@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-19 3:55 ` Ow Mun Heng
[not found] ` <1124423704.8620.25.camel-/ZsuMndpQpsb5wn6fCfWY+TW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-25 14:09 ` Andrew Haninger
2005-08-24 10:50 ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
[not found] ` <20050824105002.GC12792-X3ehHDuj6sIIGcDfoQAp7BvVK+yQ3ZXh@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-25 13:57 ` Ow Mun Heng
[not found] ` <1124978274.16010.0.camel-/ZsuMndpQpsb5wn6fCfWY+TW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-25 14:04 ` Dominik Brodowski
[not found] ` <20050825140456.GA8630-JwFqNg2GrOVrgjWwlLH9qw@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-25 14:20 ` Ow Mun Heng
[not found] ` <1124979626.16010.3.camel-/ZsuMndpQpsb5wn6fCfWY+TW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-25 15:00 ` Felix Homann
2005-09-02 13:09 ` Erik Slagter
2005-08-25 15:04 ` Felix Homann
[not found] ` <200508251704.50673.fexpop-53koH/AXb86i2/dY4+mD5w@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-25 15:37 ` Dominik Brodowski
[not found] ` <20050825153703.GA594-JwFqNg2GrOVrgjWwlLH9qw@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-25 17:30 ` Felix Homann
2005-08-16 8:44 ` Johan Vromans
[not found] ` <m2u0hqqni1.fsf-KjnUIgV0B0bak1Ioo/c9IoRWq/SkRNHw@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-16 9:28 ` Felix Homann
[not found] ` <200508161128.20966.fexpop-53koH/AXb86i2/dY4+mD5w@public.gmane.org>
2005-08-16 11:53 ` Johan Vromans
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