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Re: A simple cpufreq(9)



jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost (Jukka Ruohonen) writes:

>But how about

>       3. { 800 MHz, 805 MHz, 810 MHz, 815 MHz, 820 MHz, 1300 MHz, 1800 MHz }?
>       4. And how about some ARM system that may export over 30 states,
>           possibly with non-uniform intervals?

>Can outline a consistent algorithm for an user-space or in-kernel governor
>to choose a state from these four examples?

Pick one low and one high value and select these when the core/cpu/machine
is idle vs. when the machine is busy. Selecting the low and the high
value is much easier for a human when you label it in terms of the
specific platform intead of a misleading percentage.


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