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Message-ID: <20100109173806.31fed620@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 17:38:06 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@....net>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High cpu temperature with 2.6.32, bisection shows commit 69d258
(fwd)
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:05:38 +0200 (EET)
Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@....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 ...
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