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From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add p4-clockmod driver in x86-64
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:59:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <417FB7BA.9050005@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB600333A69D@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>

Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>>....
> Yes. Clock modulation is not as useful compared to enhanced speedstep.
> But, 
> I feel, it should be OK to have the driver, though it is not really
> useful 
> in common case. It may be useful in some exceptional cases. 

I think I have one of such cases.

I am one of the members of the robotic soccer team from the University 
of Oporto, and a couple of months ago we were looking for new 
motherboards for our robots, because we are starting to need new 
hardware (on-board lan, usb2.0, etc.).

We really don't need excepcional performance, but we really, really need 
low power consumption, so lowering the clock on a standard mainboard 
seemed to be the best cost/performance scenario.

Could this driver be used to keep a standard p4 processor at say 25% 
clock speed at all times?

-- 
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-27 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-27 14:43 [PATCH] Add p4-clockmod driver in x86-64 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-27 14:59 ` Paulo Marques [this message]
2004-10-27 15:56   ` Lee Revell
2004-10-27 16:14     ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-27 16:22       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-27 18:47         ` Marcus Metzler
2004-10-27 21:38   ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2004-10-27 21:50     ` Alan Cox
2004-10-28  0:17       ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-27 16:39 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-26 21:28 Venkatesh Pallipadi
2004-10-27  3:18 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-28  0:10 ` Andi Kleen

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