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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:19:34 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Broken ondemand scheduler in Linux 2.6.30+ on Pentium IVs
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The ondemand governor assumes that frequency transitions occur at low 
latency. This isn't usefully the case with p4-clockmod, and running 
ondemand there will generally show obvious performance regressions. If 
you have a recent enough P4 use the acpi-cpufreq driver instead. If not, 
the conservative governor should still work and is a better fit to the 
hardware.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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