Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 May 2015 18:07:02 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] x86, mwaitt: introduce mwaitx idle with a configurable timer |
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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:55:58PM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > That's not what appears to be happening here though: the MWAITX will > > return after the timeout. > > > > Which isn't really useful unless we use it to drive timers. > > What about things like mdelay() ?
It has an upper limit on the max timeout though: u32 TSC cycles.
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