From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751765AbWG1BYo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:24:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751773AbWG1BYo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:24:44 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]:65156 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751765AbWG1BYo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:24:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=ndfQsOpO0P7g1XQpPhC+hRUyzHHfGQOwSlbEd2op/+CTNVR3RH9zfKurGCr11XvO9df5aqmoCfM4PMtQ08VcGzczT9oMFd7WyxCkwzeUmrqVQyhq8Wona5T/X2JoLvICH270lKfQ/862R69YpdF1aKxfGXAwFXx7j/LcwJtj7ro= From: Patrick McFarland To: Dave Jones Subject: Re: The ondemand CPUFreq code -- I hope the functionality stays Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:25:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Miles Lane , LKML References: <200607272104.24088.diablod3@gmail.com> <20060728011040.GO5687@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060728011040.GO5687@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607272125.17051.diablod3@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 27 July 2006 21:10, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:04:23PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: > > I think you've gotten confused. Ondemand is a horrible governor that > > only flips between two cpu frequencies, the lowest and the highest. > > That isn't true. I just double checked, and saw my core-duo changing > between all 4 states it offers. This may have been fixed then. > > Use the Conservative governor instead. > > This governor is based on the same code as on-demand with some subtle > tweaks to make it not change the frequency as often. If anything *this* > one should be less 'active' for you than ondemand. This used to be not true at all. Go back in the LKML archives about a year or so. > What driver are you using ? K7. > Dave -- Patrick McFarland || www.AdTerrasPerAspera.com "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989