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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: 'Pavel Machek' <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: 'Andrew Morton' <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: add lowpower_idle sysctl
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:04:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403251904.i2PJ4iF25729@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040324095422.GA241@elf.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200403180031.i2I0VQF02038@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

>>>>> Pavel Machek wrote on Wed, March 24, 2004 1:54 AM
> > +extern int idle_mode;
> > +
> > +#define IDLE_NOOP	0
> > +#define IDLE_HALT	1
> > +#define IDLE_POLL	2
> > +#define IDLE_ACPI	3
> >
>
> How is idle_noop different from idle_poll?

I was thinking idle_noop truly does nothing at all, versus idle_poll
which optimize cross cpu wakeup.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-18  0:31 add lowpower_idle sysctl Kenneth Chen
2004-03-18  1:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18  3:18 ` Kenneth Chen
2004-03-18  3:28   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18  3:40     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-03-18  9:05       ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-03-18 22:59       ` Todd Poynor
2004-03-19  0:09         ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-19  0:43         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-03-18 18:29 ` Kenneth Chen
2004-03-18 21:59 ` Kenneth Chen
2004-03-18 22:35   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-24  9:54   ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-23  9:56 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-25 19:04 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2004-03-25 19:20 ` Chen, Kenneth W

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