Talk:CPU Frequency Scaling

Hm, I find difference between ondemand and conservative governors poorly explained, basically, those two are the same, however conservative governor has longer reponse times and average longer period of time (therefore it won't scale up frequency as fast as on demand and is rather more power saving and slightly less responsive than ondemand). It's imho not true that ondemand basically switches between max/min.

Ondemand runs at the lowest possible frequency and increases to maximum when CPU usage hits 100%. Conservative runs at the lowest possible frequency and increases incrementally as more power becomes necessary.