Intel pstate

[Tim Gardner]

On 04/13/2014 05:09 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 13/04/14 01:16, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Should we revisit our decision to disable pstate in light of support
>> from thermald ?
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1188647/comments/14
>>
>> Colin - was your work on pstate power consumption ever published in an
>> open forum? I am referring to a Dec 20, 2013 email from you entitled
>> "Intel-pstate driver power measurements".
>>
>> rtg
>
> My concern was that some i7 machines we're overheating with pstate
> enabled, hence the drive to get thermald into Trusty.
>
> However, I wanted to take a more conservative view on thermald since it
> is still maturing and we went through some iterations to iron out quite
> a few issues found in static analysis, the security review and testing
> during Q1 of 2014. Since this was a relatively new hunk of C++ I wanted
> to give it more time to get some thorough testing on various systems out
> there, so I was reluctant to make it default with intel-pstate enabled
> for the LTS.  It is however, my aim to enable intel-pstate and with
> thermald for T+1.
>
> Colin
>

That works for me. Thanks for the reminder.

rtg

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