For as long as I have known the kernels we use, they have used the userspace 
cpu governor as the default, which basically does nothing if there is no 
userspace software to handle the scaling. As far as I can tell, we don't seem 
to have any officially sanctioned userspace software to handle this task 
anymore in the main branch. I think KDE used to have something to do this, but 
not anymore. Is there any suitable substitute? If not, I would propose we 
switch the default cpu governor to conservative or ondemand so the kernel can 
do the scaling. From what I've read, ondemand is generally more responsive than 
conservative to cpu loads. But note, this won't enable cpu scaling 
automatically, as the modules must be explicitly loaded. udev doesn't support 
autoloading for them. It just reduces the steps needed to get it working by 
making the scaling work out of the box once the proper module is loaded. 
Thoughts?

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