The ondemand cpu speed governor - some help please

[Chris Clayton]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> speedstep-smi isn't a governor it's the mechanism that allows speed

PBKAC thinko ;)

> changes to occur.  Unfortunatly it has a really high latency when it
> does frequency changes. So high in fact, that using ondemand with
> it can introduce a really large performance hit, so it's explicitly
> prevented from being enabled.
> (There's probably a message in dmesg telling you this when you try).
>

Yes, there is. However, it seems that none of the cpu freq drivers are 
suitable for my laptop. Never mind, I use it plugged into the mains most of 
the time anyway.

Chris