Re: Status of X86_P4_CLOCKMOD?

[Johannes Stezenbach]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:57, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > P4 clockmod certainly sucks compared to Speedstep,
> > but IMHO it is still potentially useful for the average
> > desktop PC user (at least those many who let their PCs
> > run 24/7, but 90% idle and unused).
> 
> I don't think so no. The latencies make it unusable.

I tried to explain that I think one can use it in a way
so the latencies are not a big issue. One must
just accept that it needs different policy than
Speedstep etc.


Johannes
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