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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 2/4] x86, mwaitt: introduce mwaitx idle with a configurable timer
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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