Let's reconsider some more applications installed by default

Eric Griffith egriffith92 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 20:21:12 UTC 2015


Fair enough, but its probably also less of a drop than what the firmware
would automatically do the moment it hits max temps without thermald
On Aug 28, 2015 16:19, "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Eric Griffith <egriffith92 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Literally the very last sentence of the documentation explicitly states
> that
> > thermald will control the P-States of the CPU to decrease temperature
> > without affecting the T-states (clock cycles) thus not harming
> performance.
>
> I think that's misleading.  P-states themselves adjust voltage and
> frequency, so performance can be impacted by them alone.  T-states
> essentially lock the CPU even further through clock gating.  So the
> documentation seems to be implying that the daemon was able to reduce
> temp just through p-state adjustment and not resort to t-states would
> would have impacted performance even more.  In other words, it was
> able to reduce temp while limiting performance loss but not eliminate
> performance loss all together.
>
> josh
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