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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: inline ppc64_runlatch_off
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:51:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806065112.GT29316@kryten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281075949.2168.31.camel@pasglop>


Hi,

> remind me why we need to do that runlatch thing on these CPUs at all ?

The PMU uses it so events can be constructed that count only non idle cycles.
I think the power management hardware on POWER6 and POWER7 also use the
runlatch state to determine how busy a CPU is.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06  4:53 [PATCH] powerpc: inline ppc64_runlatch_off Anton Blanchard
2010-08-06  5:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-06  5:56   ` Anton Blanchard
2010-08-06  6:25     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-06  6:51       ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2010-08-06  8:02 ` Olof Johansson
2010-08-06 13:28   ` Anton Blanchard
2010-08-09  2:44     ` Olof Johansson

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