linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: remove idle notifier

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Message-ID: <20161118081755.GA4425@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:17:55 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: remove idle notifier


* Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org> wrote:

> The return from idle path is latency sensitive,
> so the less code and fewer data accesses, the better.
> 
> Remove the un-maintained i7300_idle driver,
> the only user of the x86 idle-notifier,
> and then remove the notifier itself. 

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo