On 9/29/2010 5:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote:
> Yeah, I saw that.  I think that is also on wikipedia.  So maybe
> ondemand is for battery usage.  It would still be nice to have
> conservative for plugged in situations, like a desktop.
> 
> I did try to google first, I just didn't see a clear answer.

Conservative is supposed to save more power by keeping the frequency
lower.  Which one is used should make little difference to a cpu bound
benchmark since both will end up at the max frequency before long.  The
ondemand should be slightly better since it will hit the max frequency
faster.

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