Re: Dual Core on Linux questions

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Mar 18 2006 - 04:20:15 EST


On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 02:35 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a few questions about the PM Dual Core and how could it really work
> with Linux. Sorry if there are new patches on LKML about any of these things:
>
> Could each processor or die, have it's own cpufreq scaling governor?
>
> Is there a way to allow one die to be idle and let the other one normal?
>
> So in other words, could we manage these processors speedstep, utilization and
> workload individually?


afaik the cpuspeed daemon already supports this.
(not all dual core hardware can do this, but for the hw that can,
cpuspeed supports it)

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