[Q] Kernel Governors

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I have found explanations for most of the governors but would be nice to have a better explanation of the governors in particular the Smartass governor. Any kernel devs want to do a nice writeup explaining these.

Thanks.

the thing with governors is that they typically vary by developers and sometimes even by individual kernels. The concept of smartass is to throttle back when not used and ramp up using more slots to accurately match your speed to your usage. Most devs throw their own tweaks into each governor though, specifically the smartass one most

hope that helps a little bit...

Nice development thread!

This is more of a general question (and probably will rightfully be moved there soon enough)

Here it is though
Performance (never use): Keeps CPU at max all of the time
Powersave (never use):Keeps the CPU at min at all times
Conservative (personally suggested): Keeps CPU at lowest clockspeed possible while trying to perform well
interactive: Generally not used
smartass: works like conservative most of the time but locks the CPU at a low clock speed with screen off (depends on the kernel on exacts)
interactiveX: Seen in a kernel for my TB but NO idea what it does at all

Any I miss?

Userspace. Nobody knows what the hell its for.
Ondemand...lowers clock when not needed, ramps up very quickly when needed.
Interactive is very similar in that manner.

smartass can be configured to act like conservative or ondemand. I have it acting more like ondemand.

Standard Linux governors.