From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Brandewie Subject: Re: 3.9.0 + CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE=y -> ThinkPad T420 with i5 lost ACPI functionality Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 12:24:58 -0700 Message-ID: <51913E0A.6060402@gmail.com> References: <5183EC09.9080208@gmx.de> <3715884.H8PIhhjRXL@vostro.rjw.lan> <51911826.907@gmail.com> <519120CC.10403@gmx.de> <51912990.8020206@intel.com> <51913B45.80901@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <51913B45.80901@gmx.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?VG9yYWxmIEbDtnJzdGVy?= Cc: Dirk Brandewie , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Linux PM list List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On 05/13/2013 12:13 PM, Toralf F=C3=B6rster wrote: > On 05/13/2013 07:57 PM, Dirk Brandewie wrote: >> cd /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu >> mkdir bonic >> echo 400 > boinc/cpu.shares >> boinc & >> echo $! > boinc/tasks > > In many places of my scripts for automated testing I use currently th= e > "nice -n" prefix at my ThinkPad to keep a long battery life, quiet fa= n, > cool CPU. The CPU just runs with minimal frequency but will give > med/max. power on demand. > > If the P-State governor will be the replacement the old behaviour - > > the kernel menu config says "will become the perferred ... (sic!) > ...scaling driver for Sandy bridge processors" - > > is there a nifty user space tool which replaces "nice" and do all cgr= oup > stuff for the user ? > cgexec from the libcgroup-tools package (fedora name) look like it will= place a process in a group for you. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cgroups Has some useful examples. --Dirk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html