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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3] cpuidle/governors: Fix logic in selection of idle states
On 2/4/2014 12:35 AM, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
> The cpuidle governors today are not handling scenarios where no idle state
> can be chosen. Such scenarios coud arise if the user has disabled all the
> idle states at runtime or the latency requirement from the cpus is very strict.
>
> The menu governor returns 0th index of the idle state table when no other
> idle state is suitable. This is even when the idle state corresponding to this
> index is disabled or the latency requirement is strict and the exit_latency
> of the lowest idle state is also not acceptable. Hence this patch
> fixes this logic in the menu governor by defaulting to an idle state index
> of -1 unless any other state is suitable.

state 0 is defined as polling, and polling ALWAYS should be ok



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