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Subject: [gentoo-dev] speedfreq-dynamic patch for responsive wake-ups
From: Jim Northrup <glamdring-inc () comcast ! net>
Date: 2005-02-23 2:57:31
Message-ID: 421BF11B.8040905 () comcast ! net
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Speedfreq "dynamic" setting is cool (literally), it saves me from
burning all my cpu's wattage while my firewall/router/printserver idles
at 300mhz (on a 2400 p4), and it dials in the mhz required for a
moderate program to run at .8 idle which leaves room for responsiveness
to new load.
Every time I emerge it I hack this small tidbit in to solve the
following author-documented idiosyncracy:
"but some applications may experience erratic performance because of the
latency in speeding up the CPU."
When I ran vanilla speedfreq I would sometimes rifle through tons of
diagnostics to locate the lag, before checking speedfreq. slow decay is
fine but slow response is not as useful.
This one-line patch makes speedfreq perfect imho. it spikes the cpu
frequency which will adjust itself down stepwise as usual.
Jim
diff -u speedfreq-0.7.2/speedfreqd.c speedfreq-0.7.2b/speedfreqd.c
--- speedfreq-0.7.2/speedfreqd.c 2003-10-17 21:56:53.000000000 -0700
+++ speedfreq-0.7.2b/speedfreqd.c 2005-02-22 18:31:08.173420744 -0800
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@
}
if (ratio < FREQ_UP)
- target += FREQ_STEP;
+ target += FREQ_STEP*8;
else if (ratio > FREQ_DOWN)
target -= FREQ_STEP;
--
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