On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 09:39:34PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > With correct frequency management, the lower power per instruction of > the lower frequencies outweighs the reduced time in the lower C > states.
This is (broadly speaking) untrue. There's a bunch of fixed costs that a naive P=IV² doesn't take into account. Assuming a fixed amount of work, race to idle is almost always the most power efficient strategy. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
