From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
gregkh@suse.de, stable@kernel.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
rjw@sisk.pl, Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq fix timer teardown in conservative governor (2.6.30-rc2)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:12:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090424161217.GA25650@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904240217390.15843@localhost.localdomain>
* Len Brown (lenb@kernel.org) wrote:
> Somebody please remind me why we are spending effort to
> maintain the conservative governor instead of deleting it.
>
Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
"The CPUfreq governor "conservative", much like the "ondemand"
governor, sets the CPU depending on the current usage. It differs in
behaviour in that it gracefully increases and decreases the CPU speed
rather than jumping to max speed the moment there is any load on the
CPU. This behaviour more suitable in a battery powered environment."
So better battery usage seems to be the reason why conservative lives.
Mathieu
> thanks,
> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-23 14:00 [BUG] 2.6.29.1 debugobjects warning Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-23 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-24 4:34 ` [PATCH -stable] cpufreq fix timer teardown in conservative governor (2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.1) Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-28 12:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-24 4:35 ` [PATCH] cpufreq fix timer teardown in conservative governor (2.6.30-rc2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-24 6:18 ` Len Brown
2009-04-24 16:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2009-04-26 14:47 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-04-26 16:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-24 4:38 ` [PATCH] cpufreq fix timer teardown in ondemand governor (2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.1, 2.6.30-rc2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-28 13:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-24 6:49 ` [BUG] 2.6.29.1 debugobjects warning Ingo Molnar
2009-04-24 15:07 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-27 11:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
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