public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Option to disable AMD C1E (allows dynticks to work)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:06:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071214200605.GA17424@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712142053400.3668@localhost.localdomain>

> Well, that would interfere with the acpi-idle code.

How so? idle notifiers should work for acpi idle too.

> Anyway the idle notifiers is a pretty artificial interface which is on
> my get rid of it list anyway.

The original use cases were: 
- Accounting for idle time with stopped counters in oprofile and eliminate
the need for idle=poll.
That never was implemented unfortunately but would be still a worthy
feature I think.
- Perfmon for similar uses.
- noidletick -- my original noidletick implementation used the idle
notifiers similar to the s390 implementation. Obsolete now. 

Right now it is used for the machine check early notification, but I never
liked that (imho it just "fixes" a non problem only relevant 
in non realistic testing situations) and it would be fine to drop that one 
I think.  In fact I already made it a config in the patchkit to use the 64bit
mce code on 32bit too.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-13 22:44 [PATCH] Option to disable AMD C1E (allows dynticks to work) Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-13 22:33 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 12:39   ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-14 10:17     ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 13:41       ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-14 12:20         ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 16:01           ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-14 18:07             ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-12-14 18:12               ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 19:57                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-12-14 20:06                   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-12-14 19:58                 ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-14 18:10             ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 19:53               ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-12-14 22:35       ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-12-15  0:10         ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-15 12:41         ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-13 22:47 Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-13 22:58 ` Johannes Weiner
2007-12-14 12:48   ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-18 15:43 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-18 17:11   ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-14  0:14 Mikhail Kshevetskiy
     [not found] <47754735.1050009@richardharman.com>
2007-12-29  7:52 ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-29  9:09   ` Richard Harman
2007-12-29 11:19     ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-29 11:46     ` Islam Amer
2007-12-30 20:45     ` Rene Herman
2007-12-29 14:43 David P. Reed
2007-12-29 22:28 ` Islam Amer
2007-12-30  0:35   ` Islam Amer
2007-12-30 12:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-30  1:38   ` Rene Herman
2007-12-30  1:49     ` Islam Amer
2007-12-30  3:24       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-30 10:17       ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-30 14:42         ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-30 21:12           ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-31  2:34             ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-30 20:57         ` Richard Harman
2007-12-30 21:18           ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-30 13:36             ` Richard Harman
2007-12-30 23:32               ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-12-31  0:30               ` David P. Reed

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20071214200605.GA17424@one.firstfloor.org \
    --to=andi@firstfloor.org \
    --cc=eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox