From: Alexander Bokovoy <ab@altlinux.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-acpilinux-acpi@intel.com, cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] 0/3 Dynamic cpufreq governor and updates to ACPI P-state driver
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:24:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031023082401.GE3847@sam-solutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1066897184.395.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:19:44AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:21, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>
> > And with the kind of power savings that comes with these frequency
> > changes, this behaviour
> > results in longer battery life. However, as yet I do not have any
> > numbers to quantify this gain,
> > mainly because I do not have any setup where I can measure actual power.
> >
>
> some time ago I did this by using the ACPI method of asking the battery
> what the current use is at this point in time; it's of course not as
> exact as a full measurement setup but it's a nice poor mans power watch
> too ....
Unfortunately, there is a number of ACPI-enabled BIOSes which report wrong
battery rate when EST is in action -- they still continue to report a rate
which corresponds to highest CPU frequency despite the fact that actual
frequency might be the lowest one.
--
/ Alexander Bokovoy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-23 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-22 18:21 [PATCHSET] 0/3 Dynamic cpufreq governor and updates to ACPI P-state driver Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-10-23 8:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-10-23 8:24 ` Alexander Bokovoy [this message]
2003-10-23 8:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-10-23 18:03 ` Ducrot Bruno
2003-10-23 18:16 ` Todd Poynor
2003-10-23 18:26 ` Todd Poynor
2003-11-02 20:28 ` Jan Rychter
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-05 21:12 Mukesh Rajan
2003-11-04 3:14 Brown, Len
2003-11-04 3:21 ` Jan Rychter
2003-11-04 7:16 ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-22 1:48 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-10-22 1:48 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-10-22 1:42 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-10-22 1:42 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-10-21 2:56 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-10-21 2:56 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-10-21 8:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-21 8:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-21 20:47 ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-21 10:57 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-21 11:09 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-21 20:30 ` Alexander Bokovoy
2003-10-21 20:39 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-21 21:11 ` Alexander Bokovoy
2003-10-21 21:37 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-21 21:53 ` Alexander Bokovoy
2003-10-21 22:27 ` Måns Rullgård
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