From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 23:55:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30BA1065670 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:55:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mav@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cmail.optima.ua (cmail.optima.ua [195.248.191.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC1A8FC16 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:55:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mav@FreeBSD.org) X-Spam-Flag: SKIP X-Spam-Yversion: Spamooborona-2.1.0 Received: from [212.86.226.226] (account mav@alkar.net HELO mavbook.mavhome.dp.ua) by cmail.optima.ua (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.9) with ESMTPSA id 231279456; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:55:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4967E3F1.3050002@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:55:29 +0200 From: Alexander Motin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081029) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Lavoie References: <1231471393.00057821.1231461001@10.7.7.3> <1231492987.00057896.1231480801@10.7.7.3> <1231514587.00058037.1231502401@10.7.7.3> <1231532583.00058199.1231520401@10.7.7.3> <1231543382.00058245.1231531801@10.7.7.3> In-Reply-To: <1231543382.00058245.1231531801@10.7.7.3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep(R) Technology) on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:55:27 -0000 Gabriel Lavoie wrote: > Another question. Any reason why powerd doesn't use > dev.est.0.freq_settings when it is available instead of > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels? > > On my system: > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2500/88000 2187/77000 2000/47608 1750/41657 > 1600/44616 1400/39039 1200/41800 1050/36575 900/31350 750/26125 > 600/20900 450/15675 300/10450 150/5225 > dev.est.0.freq_settings: 2500/88000 2000/47608 1600/44616 1200/41800 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels is just a mix of est and p4tcc levels. By default powerd uses all of them. If you really wish, you can disable p4tcc with: hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1 hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1 then dev.cpu.0.freq_levels will be equal to dev.est.0.freq_settings. > If I don't lower the polling time of powerd to 100ms, my system > becomes way too much unresponsive because powerd takes too much time > to increase the frequency, step by step and there are a lot of > settings with dev.est.0.freq_settings (14). With > dev.est.0.freq_settings, the minimal setting is high enough so the > system stays responsive and powerd would bring it up to max frequency > quickly enough, even if the polling time is still kept at 500ms. This > would work more like Windows or Linux where the lowest frequency at > which the CPU will drop is the lowest EIST gives (here 1200 MHz). I have just merged updated powerd to 7-STABLE to address this issue. -- Alexander Motin