From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752030Ab3LKO5A (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:57:00 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f48.google.com ([74.125.83.48]:40276 "EHLO mail-ee0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751300Ab3LKO47 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:56:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:56:55 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Mike Galbraith , Thomas Gleixner , Len Brown , Linux PM list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jeremy Eder , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: 50 Watt idle power regression bisected to Linux-3.10 Message-ID: <20131211145655.GB4510@gmail.com> References: <1386652637.5374.72.camel@marge.simpson.net> <1386732093.5964.6.camel@marge.simpson.net> <20131211113839.GF21683@pd.tnic> <20131211115239.GA21999@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1386764955.12005.60.camel@marge.simpson.net> <20131211124352.GB21999@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20131211134048.GH21683@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131211134048.GH21683@pd.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:43:52PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Something like the below.. someone needs to double check and possibly > > add SNB/IVB EX parts if they're already available. > > Right, our friends at Intel would need to tell us which families/models > does AAI65 span... if, this is actually the case. I think CLFLUSH should be pretty universally available, IIRC graphics drivers were using it rather heavily in combination with write-combining MTRRs, both on Linux and on Windows. Thanks, Ingo