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SubjectRe: 50 Watt idle power regression bisected to Linux-3.10
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:06:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 05:28 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>
> >> The reason we use thread_info::flags is because we need to write
> >> TIF_NEED_RESCHED into it to wake up anyhow.
> >>
> >> Using another cacheline would mean the wakeup path would need to write a
> >> second cross cpu cacheline -- that is badness too.
> >>
> >> So no, I don't think we want to listen to another line.
> >
>
> Right, okay, so that's the implicit wakeup. However, I would think the
> CLFLUSH would hurt a lot more.

Maybe, but still, who cares? Its only a few broken cpus that actually
need the clflush, normal cpus do not. We should not optimize for the
broken case.




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