Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.5.32] CPU frequency and voltage scaling (0/4) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 28 Aug 2002 20:25:08 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 19:48, Cort Dougan wrote: > It's even worse for some of the very new P4's that don't have their > heatsink seated properly. They heat up every few minutes and then throttle > themselves due to thermal overload. I think this situation is going to > become more and more common, now. We're at the mercy of every BIOS and
Systems designers are designing on the basis of thermal slowdowns being the optimal way to build some systems. Its actually quite reasonable for many workloads.
> micro-code programmer now-a-days. That situation needs to be improved > upon, as well.
Cpufreq doesn't handle this case yet in the 2.4 code but it already includes the needed udelay correction. Not everything CPUfreq has to deal with need be user initiated
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