Re: The ondemand CPUFreq code -- I hope the functionality stays

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

> Personally, I prefer conservative, because it isn't as "jumpy", but I
> can see ondemand being necessary in a server environment where the
> several second lag time to peak performance would hurt response time
> when load is low.


jumpy is fine though; at least on the processors my employer makes
changing frequency is really really fast, so you get maximum savings by
switching often (you can switch down more aggressively if you know
you'll switch back up quickly). So switching often is a good policy if
you want both good response AND good power savings... 
I don't know about other cpu makers; my frequency switching machines are
all Intel.

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