Re: [v9 PATCH 0/9]: cpuidle: Cleanup cpuidle/ Introduce cpuidle to POWER.

Arun R Bharadwaj
2009-11-16T10:36:52Z

> Hi,
>
> This patchset introduces cpuidle infrastructure to POWER, prototyping
> for pSeries, and also does a major refactoring of current x86 idle
> power management and a cleanup of cpuidle infrastructure.
>
> This patch series has been in discussion for quite a while now and
> below are the links to the previous discussions.
>
> Hopefully, this is ready to be included in the -tip tree.
>
> v8 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/8/82
> v7 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/6/278
> v6 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/22/180
> v5 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/22/26
> v4 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/1/133
> v3 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/27/124
> v2 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/26/233
> v1 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/19/150
>
>
> Changes in this version:
> ----------------------------------------
> *Added documentation for the new design regarding registration
> of idle routines in Documentation/cpuidle/core.txt
>
> *Platforms which do not want the code bloat of cpuidle can
> disable CONFIG_CPU_IDLE. Alternate definition of
> cpuidle_idle_call is provided which would call the appropriate
> idle routine provided by the arch without the overhead of
> registration and governors.
> (Thanks to Andi for raising this isuue)
>
> *I had missed a cpuidle_kick_cpus() in
> cpuidle_pause_and_lock() which is called from the hotplug
> path. So added that and tested this patchset by subjecting it
> to cpuhotplug torture.
> (Thanks to Balbir for noticing this)
>
>

Hi Peter,

Did you get time to look at this series?
Please let me know if we need any changes to this version to get it
merged.

thanks
> --arun
>