From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 15 6: 9:52 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82F537B401; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:09:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2860243F1E; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:09:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h0FE9iP4095667; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:09:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:09:43 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: John Baldwin Cc: Wilko Bulte , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Nate Lawson Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cpu.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > This was on my laptop with the power plugged in, but you could do the > same on a desktop machine. Eventually we may define more complex > policies that slow the CPU down to conserve power if the system is > largely idle for example. There's been a fair amount of interesting work on this in the Linux scheduler/power communities that we might want to read up on when we do decide to try to tackle this. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message