ondemand vs conservative

[Daniel Hollocher]

Thanks folks,
It does sound like it is just a hardware specific bug.  I will take
this upstream.

Dan

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On 9/29/2010 5:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote:
>> Yeah, I saw that.  I think that is also on wikipedia.  So maybe
>> ondemand is for battery usage.  It would still be nice to have
>> conservative for plugged in situations, like a desktop.
>>
>> I did try to google first, I just didn't see a clear answer.
>
> Conservative is supposed to save more power by keeping the frequency
> lower.  Which one is used should make little difference to a cpu bound
> benchmark since both will end up at the max frequency before long.  The
> ondemand should be slightly better since it will hit the max frequency
> faster.
>



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