powernowd vs. ondemand governor

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:58:01PM +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> We currently ship powernowd in the desktop seed, its main purpose being to
> load cpufreq modules set up the kernel's CPU frequency scaling governor.  If
> (and only if) that fails, it starts up powernowd instead.  I'm not sure on
> which platforms that's still needed, if any.
> 
> Is this still an appropriate default?  Aren't the necessary modules loaded
> automatically now?  Would it be a better idea to set the default to ondemand
> in the kernel and drop powernowd altogether?

When this came up at UDS the response was that booting was faster with
the mode set to performance.  Thus it is set to performance by default,
and then changed to ondemand once boot is complete.  Perhaps the
bootchart capable amongst us could re-confirm that.

-apw