cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 17 06:55:31 PDT 2008


On Monday 17 March 2008 05:01:43 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> phk         2008-03-17 09:01:43 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/cpufreq     est.c
>   Log:
>   Increase time we wait for things to settle to 1 millisecond,
>   10 microseconds is too short.
>
>   Always set the cpu to the highest frequency so that we get through
>   boot and don't handicap cpus where powerd(8) is not used.

Hmm, I actually consider this a feature when I'm not running powerd to use 
less battery.  I think we should only bump up the CPU on battery power when 
using powerd so that it can be lowered again to save battery power when the 
CPU is idle.

-- 
John Baldwin


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