what is 'cpuspeed' for?

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Dave Jones wrote:

>  > 'cpuspeed' needs to support '--ignore-intermediate-frequencies' option
>  > to speed up the transtiton between max & min speeds.
> 
> It can't. Some implementations of speed scaling can't handle
> huge leaps, and need to be 'stepped'. Some of the drivers do this
> internally anyway, so even if you removed it from cpuspeed, the
> multiple transitions would still be occuring.

I guess internal multiple transitions is fine. But looks like cpuspeed
is not taking advantage of it.

Each transition is a single step (600 -> 800 -> 1000 etc..) - and each
step occurs only ater the requisite '-i' interaval.

Satish