From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: eranian@hpl.hp.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add i386 idle notifier (take 3)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:05:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061220210514.42ed08cc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061220140500.GB30752@frankl.hpl.hp.com>
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:05:00 -0800
Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is the latest version of the idle notifier for i386.
> This patch is against 2.6.20-rc1 (GIT). In this kernel, the idle
> loop code was modified such that the lowest level idle
> routines do not have loops anymore (e.g., poll_idle). As such,
> we do not need to call enter_idle() in all the interrupt handlers.
>
> This patch also duplicates the x86-64 bug fix for a race condition
> as posted by Venkatesh Pallipadi from Intel.
>
> changelog:
> - add idle notification mechanism to i386
>
None of the above text is actually usable as a changelog entry. We are
left wondering:
- why is this patch needed?
- what does it do?
- how does it do it?
The three questions which all changelogs should answer ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-21 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-20 14:05 [PATCH] add i386 idle notifier (take 3) Stephane Eranian
2006-12-21 5:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-12-21 9:12 ` Stephane Eranian
2006-12-22 1:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-22 10:07 ` Stephane Eranian
2006-12-23 11:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-03 13:20 ` Stephane Eranian
2007-01-03 23:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-05 10:55 ` Stephane Eranian
2007-01-05 13:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 10:49 ` Stephane Eranian
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