On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:51:40 -0500 (EST)
Jaroslav Skarvada jskar...@redhat.com wrote:
PowerTOP should not recommend ondemand when p4-clockmod is used.
AFAIK the p4-clockmod is autoloaded for thermal purposes, but the
latency is too high for ondemand. There is RH bugzilla on it:
kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig says that p4-clockmod shouldn't be used at
all, SpeedStep should be used instead, which would be the
acpi-cpufreq
driver, right?
So maybe powertop should suggest using that (if CPU supports it)
instead of p4-clockmod?
Maybe, if the suggestion would be written
On 11/04/10 08:22, Orion Poplawski wrote:
Could someone comment on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497167 -
powertop shouldn't recommend ondemand when using inappropriate cpufreq drivers
On my P4 system, powertop 1.13 recommends:
Suggestion: Enable the ondemand cpu speed governor
On 11/5/2010 3:24 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 11/05/2010 12:59 PM, Auke Kok wrote:
On 11/04/10 08:22, Orion Poplawski wrote:
Could someone comment on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497167
-
powertop shouldn't recommend ondemand when using inappropriate cpufreq
drivers
