On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:10:28AM +0200, Adam Tkac wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:13:24PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> * remove CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE -- ondemand automatically
> throttles down to lowest, and is just a hardcoded state
I don't think removal of powersave governor is good idea. Generally
ondemand governor does great job but in some cases doesn't. For
example when I play some films in mplayer ondemand sets frequency to
max which is not needed, of course.
The same can be achieved by altering
/sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq, but it's still
likely that you're consuming less power when ondemand is setting your
frequency to max. An idle fast processor consumes less power than an
active slow one.
Powersave governor is also good in case that you have bad fan in
your
laptop and you are going to compile some big source. Without powersave
it is not possible (yes, it really happens :) )
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/16/100
I think we should preserve ondemand and powersave governors (and
potentialy others as Dave Jones wrote in this thread). Please don't
drop them in favour of your project which might be generally better but
I believe there are cases where current governors are better.
I'm open to indications as to what these are :) Powersave is
semantically identical to ondemand with scaling_max_freq altered.
Performance is semantically identical to ondemand with scaling_min_freq
altered.
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