Re: Centrino not scaling to lowest frequency

[Dominik Brodowski <linux-X3ehHDuj6sIIGcDfoQAp7OTW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:57:53PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:50 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > 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 
> 
> > The better
> > energy usage rates of Windows are a known problem; hopefully the dynamic
> > tick patch will improve the situation in this regard.
> 
> Hmm.. that's a nice way to put it :-)
> 
> ANyway, where's this dynamic tick patch? Is it the one where you drop
> the hertz from 1K to 100?

Uh, no. http://lwn.net/Articles/138969/ has an explanation, don't know where
the most current patch is -- best check the LKML archives for that.

	Dominik


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