linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Extend mwait idle to optimize away CAL and RES interrupts to an idle CPU -v2

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Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:21:23 -0800
From:	Venki Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	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>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Extend mwait idle to optimize away CAL and RES
 interrupts to an idle CPU -v2

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com> wrote:
>
>> [...] I did have to avoid x86 smpboot cleanup that Ingo
>> suggested as that did not seem trivial to me :-).
>
> Well, idletask_ti_flags is unacceptably ugly, please do the
> smpboot.c cleanup because that paves the way to add new features
> to the x86 idle code.
>

OK. Will look at this soon.
If everything else looks OK, can you queue up the first 3 patches in
the series somewhere so that it gets some wider testing. Things should
work without that idletask_ti_flags change.

Thanks,
Venki
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