CPU Frequency Scaling

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:43:06AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
 > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 11:38 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
 > > If the scaling governor is quick enough to detect the need and perform
 > > the transition, most workloads....
 > 
 > I've had complaint, (and noticed myself) that conservative and ondemand
 > often take a few hundred ms to "ramp up" to a suitable frequency.
 > Ordinarily this isn't a problem, but with my dual 1.6Ghz laptop idling
 > down to 1Ghz, clicking 'Applications' doesn't feel as "snappy" as it
 > should.

It doesn't strike you that something might be amiss that a 1GHz CPU
can't display a menu quick enough ?  Shuffling the problem under the rug
isn't the way to fix this. Find out why it's taking so long, and fix that.

		Dave