Looking at the kernel CPUFreq Governors documentation[1], It looks like powersave is actually a pretty poor default value for many applications, but especially servers.
I'm not sure about low-power applications like laptops, and how power usage is affected by frequency on other architectures.
Perhaps defaulting to the performance governor unless one of the more intelligent governors is available?
Looking at the kernel CPUFreq Governors documentation[1], It looks like powersave is actually a pretty poor default value for many applications, but especially servers.
I'm not sure about low-power applications like laptops, and how power usage is affected by frequency on other architectures.
Perhaps defaulting to the performance governor unless one of the more intelligent governors is available?
[1]https:/ /www.kernel. org/doc/ Documentation/ cpu-freq/ governors. txt