From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 17 20:48:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569FC1065670 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F688FC1B for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21897 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2010 20:48:11 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Feb 2010 20:48:11 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4EA4D50852; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:48:10 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Andreas Nilsson References: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:48:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Andreas Nilsson's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:00:19 +0100") Message-ID: <444olfoagl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Turbo Boost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:48:12 -0000 Andreas Nilsson writes: > is the scheduler and acpi system aware of the Intel Turbo Boost technology? I don't know much more about it than the advertising material, but I don't really see what the scheduler would be able to do with the information. It's automatically applied by the chip on any core in P0 state, no? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/