Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jan 2010 17:38:06 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: High cpu temperature with 2.6.32, bisection shows commit 69d258 (fwd) |
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On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:05:38 +0200 (EET) Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net> wrote:
> > So thanks for the patch, I guess it works, and my bet is that this > case applies to L8400* (not only B models), except if it is fixed by > some old BIOS upgrade that I must have missed. > > While testing your patch, indeed the temperature was not rising and > everything was normal, but the tsc was not marked as unstable so it > didn't switch to acpi_pm clocksource, so that was probably the reason.
that's a feature ;-)
tsc is much nicer than acpi_pm.
now, if you have working C2 you get power savings back for going the going-back-to-acpi_pm... but since for you, C2 doesn't.... you're now much better off ...
-- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org
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