Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932303AbWCRJWF (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:22:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932338AbWCRJWE (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:22:04 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:15823 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932335AbWCRJWD (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:22:03 -0500 Subject: Re: Dual Core on Linux questions From: Arjan van de Ven To: Alejandro Bonilla Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060318082434.M33432@linuxwireless.org> References: <20060318082434.M33432@linuxwireless.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:21:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1142673719.2889.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 23 On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 02:35 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few questions about the PM Dual Core and how could it really work > with Linux. Sorry if there are new patches on LKML about any of these things: > > Could each processor or die, have it's own cpufreq scaling governor? > > Is there a way to allow one die to be idle and let the other one normal? > > So in other words, could we manage these processors speedstep, utilization and > workload individually? afaik the cpuspeed daemon already supports this. (not all dual core hardware can do this, but for the hw that can, cpuspeed supports it) - 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/