linux-kernel - Re: [v8 PATCH 2/8]: cpuidle: implement a list based approach to register a set of idle routines.

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Date:	Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:36:02 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	arun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v8 PATCH 2/8]: cpuidle: implement a list based approach to
 register a set of idle routines.

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:20 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:
> * Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-10-08 15:18:28]:
> 
> Implement a list based registering mechanism for architectures which
> have multiple sets of idle routines which are to be registered.
> 
> Currently, in x86 it is done by merely setting pm_idle = idle_routine
> and managing this pm_idle pointer is messy.
> 
> To give an example of how this mechanism works:
> In x86, initially, idle routine is selected from the set of poll/mwait/
> c1e/default idle loops. So the selected idle loop is registered in cpuidle
> as one idle state cpuidle devices. Once ACPI comes up, it registers
> another set of idle states on top of this state. Again, suppose a module
> registers another set of idle loops, it is added to this list.
> 
> This provides a clean way of registering and unregistering idle state
> routines.

So cpuidle didn't already have a list of idle functions it takes an
appropriate one from?

Then what does this governor do?

Also, does this imply the governor doesn't consider these idle routines?

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