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Message-ID: <20080612142455.GC7763@alberich.amd.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:24:55 +0200
From:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Veen <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] AMD C1E aware idle support

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:28:32AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> ...
> The following patch series implements a C1E aware idle function which
> also covers the late C1E enablement (case #3):
> ...

Great work!
>From a first glance and test it looks really good.
Just about 10 wakeups from idle on a C1E enabled box here.

Will do some deeper review and more tests later.

> The patches work fine on systems which are not affected by the dreaded
> ATI chipset timer wreckage. On those which have the problem, the box
> needs help from the keyboard to continue working.

I am currently not aware of that timer wreckage problem.
Are you referring to one of the HPET related bugzillas at Kernel Bug
Tracker?
If not, do you have a pointer to more information regarding this?
(Say, problem description and lspci -vxxx output for such a system.)


Thanks,

Andreas


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