Re: cpu governor ondemand issue

[Toralf Förster]

Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2007 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:16:14 +0200 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I use the following one liner for regression tests of the cpufreq governor and
> > friends:
> > 
> > tfoerste@n22 ~ $ time factor 819734028463158891
> > 
> > which usually needs 5.5 secs to complete at 1.7 GHz of my pentium M processor.
> > 
> > With the  current git sources (commit cfa76f0 at Sat Oct 20 20:19:15 2007 -0700)
> > instead this command needs 3 times longer if I run the "distributed.net client"
> > as a background process with nice level 19 b/c the cpu frequency still stays
> > at 600 MHz.
> > After stopping dnetc the cpu frequency governor ondemand works as expected again.
> > 
> > Tested at my ThinkPad T41 with stable Gentoo:
> > 
> > tfoerste@n22 ~ $ grep -e ^CONFIG_ACPI -e ^CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ ~/devel/linux-2.6/.config
> > CONFIG_ACPI=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
> > CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
> > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
> > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m
> > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y
> > 
> 
> And 2.6.23 was OK?
> 
> Is this problem still present in Linus's current tree?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Hello,
with -rc1 the problem went away :-)

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Toralf Förster
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