On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 02:20:23PM -0800, James Buren <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
ACK, I think once I already changed CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND, but didn't commit it, then it got lost.
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