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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Andreas Herrmann" <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: limit mwait_idle to Intel CPUs
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:24:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704051624.45747.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070405140045.GN6356@alberich.amd.com>

On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:00:45 Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> 
> Commit 991528d7348667924176f3e29addea0675298944
> introduced mwait_idle which is supposed to work
> for Intel CPUs starting with Core Duo.
> 
> AMD Fam10 processors won't enter C1 on mwait.

Unfortunate. Will this be fixed?

> This patch will enable default_idle for non-Intel
> CPUs even if mwait is supported.

It would be better to clear MONITOR/MWAIT in the AMD specific
CPU initialize code than add workarounds everywhere else.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05 14:00 [PATCH] x86: limit mwait_idle to Intel CPUs Andreas Herrmann
2007-04-05 14:24 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-05 14:44   ` Andreas Herrmann
2007-04-05 15:37     ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-05 16:20       ` Andreas Herrmann
2007-04-05 16:55         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 17:06           ` Markus Rechberger
2007-04-05 17:36             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:12           ` aherrman
2007-04-05 21:19             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 17:05         ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-05 14:46   ` Langsdorf, Mark

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