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From: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] AMD C1E aware idle support
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:24:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080612142455.GC7763@alberich.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080610171639.551369443@linutronix.de>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:28:32AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> ...
> The following patch series implements a C1E aware idle function which
> also covers the late C1E enablement (case #3):
> ...

Great work!
>From a first glance and test it looks really good.
Just about 10 wakeups from idle on a C1E enabled box here.

Will do some deeper review and more tests later.

> The patches work fine on systems which are not affected by the dreaded
> ATI chipset timer wreckage. On those which have the problem, the box
> needs help from the keyboard to continue working.

I am currently not aware of that timer wreckage problem.
Are you referring to one of the HPET related bugzillas at Kernel Bug
Tracker?
If not, do you have a pointer to more information regarding this?
(Say, problem description and lspci -vxxx output for such a system.)


Thanks,

Andreas



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 10:28 [patch 0/6] AMD C1E aware idle support Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 10:28 ` [patch 1/6] x86: simplify idle selection Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 10:28 ` [patch 2/6] x86: cleanup C1E enabled detection Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 10:28 ` [patch 3/6] x86: use cpuinfo to check for interrupt pending message msr Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-13  6:55   ` Andreas Herrmann
2008-06-13 12:38     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-13 14:28       ` Andreas Herrmann
2008-06-12 10:28 ` [patch 4/6] x86: use cpuid to check MWAIT support for C1 Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 10:28 ` [patch 5/6] x86: move more common idle functions/variables to process.c Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 10:29 ` [patch 6/6] x86: add c1e aware idle function Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-13  0:55   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-13  6:02     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-13  7:28       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-18 19:21   ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-18 20:26     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-18 21:58       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-18 22:04         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-18 22:17           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-18 22:27             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-12 12:31 ` [patch 0/6] AMD C1E aware idle support Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-12 12:32   ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]     ` <200806131118.31160.rjw@sisk.pl>
2008-06-13 11:52       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-12 13:09   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 14:24 ` Andreas Herrmann [this message]
2008-06-12 15:48   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-14 21:27 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-18 22:47 ` Len Brown
2008-07-04 14:35   ` Andreas Herrmann
2008-07-04 15:18     ` [PATCH] x86: emphasize that c1e aware idle stuff is AMD specific Andreas Herrmann
2008-08-05 17:42     ` [patch 0/6] AMD C1E aware idle support Pavel Machek
2008-08-06 13:21       ` Andreas Herrmann

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