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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Varying clocks freqs of CPU ?
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:15:20
Message-Id: icjkl7$89k$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Varying clocks freqs of CPU ? by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On 11/24/2010 07:00 PM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > new features, new problems...
6 > Recent multi-core CPUs modify the clock freqs of their core
7 > if only a subset of all cores are used.
8 >
9 > Are their any CONFIGs need to be set in the linux kernel to
10 > guarantee a stable system running those kind of CPUs ?
11
12 Not necessary. The clocks are changed by the kernel in the first place.
13 The CPU can't do so on its own, it's a cooperation between CPU and kernel.