[ltp] frequencies, throttling

[Carles Pina i Estany]

Hello,

Mail from Benjami reminded me something that I wanted to ask. When I want to safe battery I set up low frequency (or governor sets up).

But I noticed that there is too:
/proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling

I think that I always have (even in low freq): 

state count:             8
active state:            T0
states:
   *T0:                  00%
    T1:                  12%
    T2:                  25%
    T3:                  37%
    T4:                  50%
    T5:                  62%
    T6:                  75%
    T7:                  87%

(If I don't change manually, echo 7 > /proc...)

Anybody could explain me why is there two systems (cpu frequency and
throttling), differences, what is best to use, etc.? At least a ubuntu was
using throttling and not cpu freq to manage the system...
Pointer to some information is valid too :-)

Thank you!

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