ondemand cpufreq handler

[Sebastian Kuzminsky]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> > "Kurt H Maier" <karmaflux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a reason why powertop always recommends ondemand?
> >> Conservative is a much more sensible
> >> The patch against 1.2 replaces the ondemand check with a check for conservative.
> > 
> > Both are acceptable, as is the powersave governor.  powertop should only
> > complain if none of these three is in use.
> 
> actually you really should use ondemand, at least on Intel hardware. 
> The others are just suboptimal.

Either ondemand is always best and everyone should use it all the time,
or there are situations where other governors are better.

If ondemand is always the right answer, we should remove conservative
and powersave to avoid confusion and CO2.

If the others are useful sometimes, powertop should accept them.

Maybe add a note to the suggests-comment that ondemand is best on Intel
hardware?


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Sebastian Kuzminsky