On Sun, 01 Jun 2008, Roger Heflin wrote:
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> From my testing, I believe the only thing that p4-clockmod does is forces 
> an idle call when it could otherwise do work on an active process, so 
> fullspeed and idle uses *EXACTLY* the same amount of power as p4-clockmod 
> slower speed and idle (and therefore generates exactly the same amount of 
> heat), the only power difference would be that if you were using 
> p4-clockmod to slow down the cpu when it had an active running process 
> (force the cpu to be idle a lot of the time even though it has work).

Indeed.  And if we had a generic interface for throttling (ACPI
T-states-like) and frequency changes (ACPI P-states-like), we could just
move p4-clockmod to the throttling one (and NOT letting it register with
the frequency changes interface), and be done with it.

Do we have these interfaces?

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