> I believe that all throttling does is forcibly halt the CPU on a > particular duty cycle. This will reduce the rate of power consumption, > but reduces the CPU performance by a greater amount (since even at 100% > halted the CPU still consumes power) and so actually reduces performance > per watt. It will spread the heat and power usage produced from a given > workload task out in time (thus its usefulness in limiting CPU > temperature) but will consume more power overall.
...and more importantly deep sleep states in idle save far more power than anything else and with throttling the CPU is idle shorter. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
