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From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mwait_idle: Disable Baytrail Core and Module C6 auto-demotion
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:02:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540DB6F0.40204@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540DC9B20200007800031FDD@mail.emea.novell.com>

On 09/08/2014 02:22 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 08.09.14 at 14:42, <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> wrote:
>> From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
>>
>> Power efficiency improves on Baytrail (Intel Atom Processor E3000)
>> when C6 auto-demotion is disabled.
>>
>> Based on work by Srinidhi Kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@intel.com>.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
>
> So we raced on pulling these over - I did so late last week too and
> just didn't get to send them out yet. On this one I in fact doubt
> (and sent a respective query to Len; no response yet) that the MSR
> handling is. Hence my ported over patch is a little different:
>

According to Intel's manual, those two registers have package scope, 
i.e. all processor cores in the package share the same MSR, so 
presumably the original commit is OK.

-- 
Ross Lagerwall

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 12:42 [PATCH 1/2] mwait_idle: Disable Baytrail Core and Module C6 auto-demotion Ross Lagerwall
2014-09-08 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] mwait_idle: Broadwell support Ross Lagerwall
2014-09-08 13:24   ` Jan Beulich
2014-10-16 12:54   ` Chen, Tiejun
2014-10-16 14:06     ` Jan Beulich
2014-10-17  1:22       ` Chen, Tiejun
2014-10-17  8:40         ` Jan Beulich
2014-10-24  3:02           ` Chen, Tiejun
2014-10-17  1:00     ` Chen, Tiejun
2014-09-08 13:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] mwait_idle: Disable Baytrail Core and Module C6 auto-demotion Jan Beulich
2014-09-08 14:02   ` Ross Lagerwall [this message]
2014-09-08 14:20     ` Jan Beulich

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