On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:59:00PM -0600, Tobias Weingartner wrote:
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> On Wednesday, June 30, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > 
> > What you're saying is true, but that's not the only use case. Streaming
> > media may not benefit from 100% cpu but may not be able to work properly
> > at 0%. The same goes for other common tasks as well. Running at 30% or
> > 50% will indeed save power for those cases where running at 100% won't
> > make what you're doing finish faster and running at 0% won't work.
> 
> You're assuming that the switch is so slow that running at a constant
> average factor (of whatever) is better than simply switching to "high"
> mode when there are things to do (not in idle loop), and going back to
> "low" mode when there is nothing left to do (in idle loop/etc).  The
> system could litteraly be switching high/low several thousand times a
> second...
> 
> Try the diff, see if it works for you.

It's been pointed out to me off list. Of course I should have tested
first and then came with issues as I found them.

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