Re: Re: Centrino speedstep

Bruno Ducrot
2005-01-10T13:26:03Z

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 02:05:09AM +0100, Karol Kozimor wrote:
> Thus wrote Bruno Ducrot:
> > > > And as 100% CPU usage isn't that common on notebooks...
> > >
> >
> > 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?
> Best regards,
>

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.

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Bruno Ducrot

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