Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HT and idle = poll | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 06 Mar 2003 21:09:29 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 19:30, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >So, don't use idle=poll with HT when you know your workload has idle time! I > >have not tried oprofile, but it stands to reason that this would be a
idle=poll probably needs to be doing "rep nop" in a tight loop. That ironically also saves more power than "hlt" on PIV last time someone investigated
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