Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932700AbWBYNFV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:05:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932707AbWBYNFV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:05:21 -0500 Received: from allen.werkleitz.de ([80.190.251.108]:22412 "EHLO allen.werkleitz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932700AbWBYNFU (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:05:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:05:19 +0100 From: Johannes Stezenbach To: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Jones , Adrian Bunk , Dmitry Torokhov , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, Zwane Mwaikambo , Samuel Masham , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20060225130519.GC8698@linuxtv.org> Mail-Followup-To: Johannes Stezenbach , Andi Kleen , Dave Jones , Adrian Bunk , Dmitry Torokhov , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, Zwane Mwaikambo , Samuel Masham , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk References: <20060214152218.GI10701@stusta.de> <20060223204110.GE6213@redhat.com> <20060225015722.GC8132@linuxtv.org> <200602250527.03493.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200602250527.03493.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 84.189.211.213 Subject: Re: Status of X86_P4_CLOCKMOD? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:49:04 +1100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on allen.werkleitz.de) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 21 On Sat, Feb 25, 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:57, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > P4 clockmod certainly sucks compared to Speedstep, > > but IMHO it is still potentially useful for the average > > desktop PC user (at least those many who let their PCs > > run 24/7, but 90% idle and unused). > > I don't think so no. The latencies make it unusable. I tried to explain that I think one can use it in a way so the latencies are not a big issue. One must just accept that it needs different policy than Speedstep etc. Johannes - 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/