Re: [ACPI] constant processor 0x80 events

[Faye P. <fa...@cl...>]

Faye Pearson [fa...@cl...] wrote:
> I've used THRT as the one shot flag in the meantime and I'll see how it
> goes.

> > eg. in _L00
> > 
> > If (LNot(THRT)) {
> >   Store (One, THRT)
> >   Notify (\_PR.CPU0, 0x80)
> > }
> > 
> > and in _PPC
> > 
> > If (THRT) {
> >   Store (Zero, THRT)
> >   Return (One)
> > }

This has (almost) the desired (or at least helpful) effect.

Used in combination with the autospeedstep daemon, once this threshold
has been met:

root@marmite faye # cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance
state count:             2
active state:            P1
states:
    P0:                  1200 MHz, 20000 mW, 250 uS
   *P1:                  800 MHz, 10000 mW, 250 uS
 
The processor is switched to low power mode and autospeedstep didn't do
it:

root@marmite faye # tail /var/log/speedstep
Thu Jan  2 13:23:44 2003: max. speed mode
Thu Jan  2 13:24:01 2003: power save mode
Thu Jan  2 13:24:12 2003: max. speed mode
Thu Jan  2 13:31:19 2003: power save mode
Thu Jan  2 13:37:03 2003: max. speed mode

It still thinks it's in max. speed mode.

root@marmite faye # cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
temperature:             51 C

The processor is now relatively chilled, it would be nice if it would
try to trip up again, but that's for me to change in autospeedstep.

> This is what I'm currently running with.  The thing is I'm not sure
> whether that will cause any other side effects - any ideas?

Still not sure about the side effects.


Faye

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