Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752942Ab3CFGns (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 01:43:48 -0500 Received: from mail-oa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.219.44]:63789 "EHLO mail-oa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210Ab3CFGnq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 01:43:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5135FF50.4020001@verisign.com> References: <51351CC3.4010301@semaphore.gr> <51358117.9060902@semaphore.gr> <5135FD01.8060306@verisign.com> <5135FF50.4020001@verisign.com> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 14:43:45 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] cpufreq: conservative: Fix sampling_down_factor functionality From: Viresh Kumar To: David C Niemi Cc: Stratos Karafotis , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 11 On 5 March 2013 22:21, David C Niemi wrote: > I'd like to ask -- what is the intended use of the conservative governor these days as differentiated from the ondemand governor? At one time it seemed more oriented towards power savings, but the ondemand governor had picked up most or all of its power-saving features. I believe the difference is still the same.. conservative is not as aggressive as ondemand now also, i don't know which people are using it though :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/