From: Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Subject: Re: cpu perfpolicy
To: Vitaliy Makkoveev <mvs@openbsd.org>
Cc: Ted Unangst <tedu@tedunangst.com>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 20:29:56 +0200

On Mon Jun 02, 2025 at 05:37:00PM +0300, Vitaliy Makkoveev wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 03:22:59PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > This introduces a helper function for hw.perfpolicy that allows more
> > machine specific policies to be set.
> > 
> > On my laptop, there's also a fan policy. This affects performance, but
> > it's not really related to the existing hw.setperf mechanism. For 
> > example, a "silent" fan setting and "high" CPU setting is reasonable.
> > Exactly what I want, in fact.
> > 
> > Fortunately, perfpolicy takes a string, which makes it flexible.
> > This uses two new optional functions to parse and append the policy.
> > 
> > hw.perfpolicy=silent,auto
> > 
> 
> Do we really need to combine them? Why don't have dedicated
> hw.fanpolicy?
> 

+1