Re: [gpm] Bring back cpu frequency scaling options, heres why:

From: Tomaž Šolc <tomaz solc tablix org>
To: Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>
Cc: "James ." <jazzrz86 gmail com>, gnome-power-manager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [gpm] Bring back cpu frequency scaling options, heres why:
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:27:36 +0200

Hi

> Why do you want to use performance? I've seen the profiling and done the
> measurement myself, and the only thing performance is good for is
> heating the planet and for very specialist low latency workloads.

I guess that depends on the hardware. I know that on EeePC "ondemand"
governor causes dropped frames in mplayer and makes X less responsive in
general. AFAIK it has something to do with the broken hardware or
software implementation for that particular CPU.

Best regards
Tomaž

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