Windfarm/modules trouble

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:30 +0100, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying out the windfarm system in 2.6.15-rc3 on a iMac G5
> today.  I like the general architecture a lot, but of course with
> abstraction comes a somewhat steep learning curve, in particular if
> you (like me) aren't really a kernel guy.  So, sorry for not sending
> useful patches.
> 
> First off, compiling the stuff statically works, but the fans are
> more active than they are in OS X or with my hacked simpleTemp.  I
> wanted to find out why, and to save me some rebooting, I tried to
> compile windfarm as modules.

Yes, current windfarm has issues being in a module, plus some
non-trivial problems with the module refcounting. I'll look into it.

>From my experience, the fans are not faster than OS X if you also use
something like powernowd to throttle down your CPU speed when idle...

Ben.