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Re: PROBLEM: Celeron Core

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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Celeron Core
Date: Monday, January 21, 2008 - 7:59 pm

We are talking about throttling (i.e. P4 clockmod) not CPU frequency

scaling. Clock modulation does not reduce the clock speed, it just

basically forces the CPU to halt on a certain duty cycle. If the CPU is

already idle this has no effect and won't save any power.


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