Re: enhanced intel speedstep feature was Re: speedstep-centrino on dothan

[st3@riseup.net]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:10:33 +0200
Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:

> Do you use ACPI-based idling? If so, in which state is the CPU in (cat
> /proc/acpi/processor/*/power ? I suspect that you do not use ACPI (else 
> you wouldn't need the table-based approach) or that the ACPI-based idling is
> broken on your notebook; as then the Linux idle handler  only makes use of 
> "hlt" (IIRC), that is ACPI C1, while throttling "forces" ACPI C2 (again
>  IIRC).

For idling, I didn't mean 'real idling', but instead just 'doing nothing'
in ACPI C1 state, that's simply a CPU usage < 1%.

Sorry for being so lame =)


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ciao
st3

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