1. 17 May, 2008 1 commit
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: remove mwait capability C-state check · a738d897
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Vegard Nossum reports:
      
      | powertop shows between 200-400 wakeups/second with the description
      | "<kernel IPI>: Rescheduling interrupts" when all processors have load (e.g.
      | I need to run two busy-loops on my 2-CPU system for this to show up).
      |
      | The bisect resulted in this commit:
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      | commit 0c07ee38
      | Date:   Wed Jan 30 13:33:16 2008 +0100
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      |     x86: use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states
      
      remove the functional effects of this patch and make mwait unconditional.
      
      A future patch will turn off mwait on specific CPUs where that causes
      power to be wasted.
      Bisected-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a738d897
  2. 16 May, 2008 5 commits
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