Re: [BUG] P4 HT cpufreq driver doesn't share governor/frequency between siblings

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 17:51:27 EST


On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:33:58PM +0100, rutger@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Small bugreport, Pentium 4 Hyper-Threaded with SMP kernel (2.6.4-bk
> from Mar 11) and p4-clockmod module loaded, gives:
>
> # cd /sys/devices/system/cpu
> # cat cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> performance
> performance
> # echo powersave > cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> # cat cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> performance
> powersave
>
> Shouldn't the cpufreq driver be shared between the siblings?

Theoretically, as split-cores become more advanced, we will be able
to save power on unused cores. With the current P4's I'll bet it
makes little to no difference at all.

Dave

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/