Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755184AbYHKQFi (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:05:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752956AbYHKQF3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:05:29 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:50974 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751694AbYHKQF2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:05:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:03:46 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: S K , Zhao Yakui , Thomas Renninger , Alan Jenkins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300 Message-ID: <20080811160346.GB21292@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> References: <514e099a0808030300u140a0ae7m92a2e7294f39f7b7@mail.gmail.com> <200808081430.43012.trenn@suse.de> <200808092059.47863.trenn@suse.de> <514e099a0808100128u303207clcb22292db2f0cc59@mail.gmail.com> <1218418431.6671.52.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> <514e099a0808102144n241c8e9ak255bded0a80744f1@mail.gmail.com> <20080811042244.469f8e1d@infradead.org> <20080811140206.GB3338@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080811071128.0165be50@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080811071128.0165be50@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1004 Lines: 32 On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:11:28AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >... > so before you had for one second "20% expensive, 80% low power" > now you have for one second "20% expensive, 20% throttle power, 60% low > power" > > since throttle power is higher than low/idle power.. you lose. So what is the intended use case? Is it for people who bought an Intel Heating 4 but forgot to buy an appropriate cooling? That sounds absurd. There must be a reason why Intels CPUs support this throttling? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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/