linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Extend mwait idle to optimize away CAL and RES interrupts to an idle CPU -v1

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Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:08:19 +0800
From:	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Venki Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...gle.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend mwait idle to optimize away CAL and RES
 interrupts to an idle CPU -v1

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:38:01AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 14:13 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> 
> > This remind me that we should have moved the irq_enter()/irq_exit() to
> > each arch's related irq handler.
> > see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130709505700821&w=2
> > 
> > So Peter, is there someone alread on it? or it still worth doing now?
> 
> trouble was that some people didn't feel comfortable adding that
> overhead to plain resched IPIs that didn't need to do anything.

Any ideas on where the plain resched IPIs come from?

Thanks,
Yong

> So I
> more or less let it sit for a while.
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