Ondemand vs. conservative governor

[Arjan van de Ven]

Antti Mäkelä wrote:
> 
>   So, what is the basis for recommending "ondemand" instead of 
> "conservative"? The kernel docs explicitly recommend "conservative" in 
> battery environment instead of "ondemand".

Hi,

On Intel hardware at least (don't know exactly for AMD), it's more 
energy efficient to go to max fast and get the work done (and then go 
to idle), than it is to go to medium speeds and be less idle.....

so the kernel docs aren't right for Intel cpus at least.