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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: "Pering, Trevor" <trevor.pering@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.32] CPU frequency and voltage scaling (0/4)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:53:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020830135347.A26909@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D6F2704.A78F0A0@aitel.hist.no>; from helgehaf@aitel.hist.no on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:04:20AM +0200

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:04:20AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
 > An MHz carries more meaning - it is a measurable frequency.

It's equally meaningless (in fact, less meaningful).
- By your definition my 900MHz VIA C3 is faster than my 800MHz Athlon.
  (Clue: It isn't).
- With trickery like AMD's quantispeed ratings, MHz really is a totally
  meaningless number when relating to performance of a CPU.
- A MHz rating is only meaningful across the same vendor/family of CPUs.

Getting cpufreq's policy interface into something CPU agnostic therefore
precludes MHz ratings AFAICS.

        Dave

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-30 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-29 15:07 [PATCH][2.5.32] CPU frequency and voltage scaling (0/4) Pering, Trevor
2002-08-30  8:04 ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-30 11:53   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-08-30 12:36     ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-30 22:43       ` george anzinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-28 20:25 Grover, Andrew
2002-08-28 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-28 11:46 Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-28 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-28 18:48   ` Cort Dougan
2002-08-28 19:25     ` Alan Cox
2002-08-28 19:32       ` Cort Dougan
2002-08-29 10:26         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-08-28 19:41       ` Peter Riocreux
2002-08-28 19:58       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-29  9:51         ` Padraig Brady
2002-08-29 10:23     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-08-28 19:21   ` Alan Cox
2002-08-28 19:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-28 20:25       ` Alan Cox
2002-08-28 20:29         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-28 23:26           ` Alan Cox
2002-08-28 23:49             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-30  0:39               ` jw schultz
2002-08-29  7:01             ` Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-28 20:39         ` Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-28 21:05           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-06 11:31             ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-28 20:27       ` Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-28 20:19   ` Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-28 20:43     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-28 20:53       ` Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-28 21:08         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-28 23:00           ` george anzinger
2002-08-28 23:30           ` Alan Cox
2002-08-29  0:08             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-29  7:07               ` Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-29 10:02               ` Padraig Brady
2002-08-29 10:53               ` Alan Cox
2002-08-29 13:38                 ` Dave Jones
2002-08-29 18:47                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-29 19:24                   ` Alan Cox
2002-08-29 21:22                   ` george anzinger
2002-08-30  6:46                     ` David Gibson
2002-08-30  7:54                     ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-30  3:21                 ` David Lang

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