Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:07:55 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: .. > if we take a step back; Mark afaics only wants to put 1 in there... > And that makes sense; either you want the "no latency" C1, or you want the lot > (esp given that C2 and deeper are at the whim of the bios, what they mean varies > over time. Actually even C1 does that on some AMD systems); > > Longer term I'd suggest we make an option that basically is "C1 only", > (or technically, "use hlt only") > that solves Marks VMWARE thing, and is a lot closer to what people really want. ..
Yeah, that makes sense.
> Well, that and if VMWARE really can't deal with latency in their kernel module > they should use the proper code for that. It's also a ton easier to implement, since > it basically is "don't use the CPUIDLE idle loop, but use the traditional hlt one" ..
I don't think it's so much VMware itself, as it is the guest OS inside it.
Cheers
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