On 26-Sep-2013 7:52 PM, "Ryan" <ryanphilips19@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to know if the ondemand governor scales down the frequency to
> a minimum when the load comes below up_threshold?
>
> I understand that
>
> 1) Every now and then, the governor work queue runs and checks for
> "load" in percentage.
>
>     If load > 95 ; it bumps the frequency to maximum;
>
>     ie. if the idle time is less than 5% ; the cpu will run at maximum
>
>
> 2) If load < 90% ; it bumps the frequency down little bit;
>
>     It continues to do this till minimum; So the rate of decrease of
> frequency to minimum is very slow;
>
>    So, the frequency decrease to minimum will take a long time to
> reach minimum (depends on sampling time).
>
>
>
>
> Is this correct.

Latest ondemand gov keeps freq proportional to load all the time.. and switches to max freq directly if load is over 95..