2 bool "CPU Frequency scaling"
4 CPU Frequency scaling allows you to change the clock speed of
5 CPUs on the fly. This is a nice method to save power, because
6 the lower the CPU clock speed, the less power the CPU consumes.
8 Note that this driver doesn't automatically change the CPU
9 clock speed, you need to either enable a dynamic cpufreq governor
10 (see below) after boot, or use a userspace tool.
12 For details, take a look at <file:Documentation/cpu-freq>.
22 bool "Enable CPUfreq debugging"
24 Say Y here to enable CPUfreq subsystem (including drivers)
25 debugging. You will need to activate it via the kernel
26 command line by passing
30 1 to activate CPUfreq core debugging,
31 2 to activate CPUfreq drivers debugging, and
32 4 to activate CPUfreq governor debugging
35 tristate "CPU frequency translation statistics"
39 This driver exports CPU frequency statistics information through sysfs
42 config CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS
43 bool "CPU frequency translation statistics details"
44 depends on CPU_FREQ_STAT
46 This will show detail CPU frequency translation table in sysfs file
49 # Note that it is not currently possible to set the other governors (such as ondemand)
50 # as the default, since if they fail to initialise, cpufreq will be
51 # left in an undefined state.
54 prompt "Default CPUFreq governor"
55 default CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE if CPU_FREQ_SA1100 || CPU_FREQ_SA1110
56 default CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE
58 This option sets which CPUFreq governor shall be loaded at
59 startup. If in doubt, select 'performance'.
61 config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE
63 select CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE
65 Use the CPUFreq governor 'performance' as default. This sets
66 the frequency statically to the highest frequency supported by
69 config CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE
71 select CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE
73 Use the CPUFreq governor 'userspace' as default. This allows
74 you to set the CPU frequency manually or when an userspace
75 program shall be able to set the CPU dynamically without having
76 to enable the userspace governor manually.
80 config CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE
81 tristate "'performance' governor"
83 This cpufreq governor sets the frequency statically to the
84 highest available CPU frequency.
88 config CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE
89 tristate "'powersave' governor"
91 This cpufreq governor sets the frequency statically to the
92 lowest available CPU frequency.
96 config CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE
97 tristate "'userspace' governor for userspace frequency scaling"
99 Enable this cpufreq governor when you either want to set the
100 CPU frequency manually or when an userspace program shall
101 be able to set the CPU dynamically, like on LART
102 <http://www.lartmaker.nl/>.
104 For details, take a look at <file:Documentation/cpu-freq/>.
108 config CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND
109 tristate "'ondemand' cpufreq policy governor"
111 'ondemand' - This driver adds a dynamic cpufreq policy governor.
112 The governor does a periodic polling and
113 changes frequency based on the CPU utilization.
114 The support for this governor depends on CPU capability to
115 do fast frequency switching (i.e, very low latency frequency
118 For details, take a look at linux/Documentation/cpu-freq.
122 config CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE
123 tristate "'conservative' cpufreq governor"
126 'conservative' - this driver is rather similar to the 'ondemand'
127 governor both in its source code and its purpose, the difference is
128 its optimisation for better suitability in a battery powered
129 environment. The frequency is gracefully increased and decreased
130 rather than jumping to 100% when speed is required.
132 If you have a desktop machine then you should really be considering
133 the 'ondemand' governor instead, however if you are using a laptop,
134 PDA or even an AMD64 based computer (due to the unacceptable
135 step-by-step latency issues between the minimum and maximum frequency
136 transitions in the CPU) you will probably want to use this governor.
138 For details, take a look at linux/Documentation/cpu-freq.