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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help understanding slow down
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 02:29:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040525022941.62ab4cc4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040525103238.GA4212@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>  with the patch below we will print a big fat warning. (I did not want to
>  deny idle=poll altogether - future HT implementations might work fine
>  with polling idle.)

idle=poll is handy when profiling the kernel with oprofile clock-unhalted
events.  Because if you use the normal halt-based idle loop no profile
"ticks" are accounted to idle time at all and the results are really hard
to understand.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-25  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-24  0:32 Help understanding slow down Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  0:57 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  1:04   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  1:25     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-05-24  1:28       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  1:51         ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  2:42           ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24  2:43           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-24  6:23             ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  6:27               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  6:39                 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:21                   ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:44                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24  7:50                       ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:59                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24 10:43                           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-05-24 14:13                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-24  7:53                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-24  8:00                     ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-25 10:32                     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25  9:29                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-25 11:42                         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25  9:58                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-25 12:25                             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24  6:33   ` Paul Rolland
2004-05-24 17:28     ` Roger Luethi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-24  1:37 Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-24  1:50 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  3:31 ` Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-24  6:14   ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 18:36     ` Robert M. Stockmann

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