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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:05:45 -0600
From: Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>
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Subject: Re: a question about p4_clockmod module on Xeon quad core processors
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Xiaoning Ding wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have tried the p4-clockmod module in Linux kernel 2.6.29 on Xeon 5355 quad-core CPUs with no luck. It seems current p4-clockmod driver still cannot support Intel Quad core processors, right? 
> 
> I know I can also use acpi-cpufreq. It can only scale down the frequence from 2.67GHz to 2GHz. But I need some lower frequencies for some experiments.

Clock modulation is quite simple; in the past I've done it from 
userspace with /dev/cpu/*/msr or written my own module to do it. I don't 
know if I've ever tried it on quad-cores, but it worked on dual-core 
Woodcrest. (Note: I was not trying to save energy.)

Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org
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