Re: HEADSUP: cpufreq import complete, acpi_throttling changed

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:21:32PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> I've finished the major work of importing cpufreq.  As part of this, the 
> sysctls for acpi throttling have been removed.  The power_profile script 
> has been updated, so you can use performance/economy_cpu_freq= in 
> rc.conf to set AC on/offline cpu frequencies.  The acpi throttling 
> support has been compiled into acpi_perf.ko so load that to get 
> throttling.  Do a sysctl dev.cpu to get an understanding of the cpufreq 
> sysctls.
> 
> If you have throttling, please test the new configuration to be sure it 
> still works as before.  Final upcoming work will be manpage support and 
> bugfixing as necessary.
> 

MY laptop has CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz
(1988.52-MHz 686-class CPU). I've tested tx states with the following
script:

#!/bin/sh

freq_levels=`sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels|cut -d : -f 2|sed -e 's/\/-1//g'`

echo "Supported freq levels are: ${freq_levels}"
for i in ${freq_levels} 
do
echo "[=== Results testing [$i] freq level ===]"
sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=$i 1> /dev/null
openssl speed blowfish
done

Here is some output:

Supported freq levels are:  1991 1742 1493 1244 1196 1046 995 897 746
598 497 448 299 248 149
[=== Results testing [1991] freq level ===]
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
blowfish cbc     44067.47k    46774.97k    46975.74k    47349.96k 47353.11k
...
[=== Results testing [1196] freq level ===]
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
blowfish cbc     26456.76k    27924.48k    28192.14k    28336.50k 28410.68k
...
[=== Results testing [149] freq level ===]
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
blowfish cbc      2541.21k     2660.68k     2731.58k     2720.56k 2720.05k

It seems to work. By the way, what does /-1 mean, in
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels output?

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