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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	lenb@kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: shaohua.li@intel.com, rui.zhang@intel.com,
	jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, acpi, idle: Restructure the mwait idle routines
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 06:22:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528B7433.7020507@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131119113153.GD3694@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
> index 8f181b3f842b..e8275f2df9af 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
> @@ -438,9 +438,7 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg)
>   			 */
>   			local_touch_nmi();
>   			stop_critical_timings();
> -			__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
> -			cpu_relax(); /* allow HT sibling to run */
> -			__mwait(eax, ecx);
> +			mwait_idle_with_hints(eax, ecx);
>   			start_critical_timings();
>   			atomic_inc(&idle_wakeup_counter);
>   		}
>

hmm I take it that mwait_idle_with_hints is the one that also checks need_resched() ?
if so... powerclamp may not want to use that (the whole point is to NOT give the cpu
to tasks!)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-19 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-19  9:00 acpi_pad mwait usage Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-19  9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-19 11:31   ` [PATCH] x86, acpi, idle: Restructure the mwait idle routines Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-19 13:06     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-19 13:21     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-11-19 14:22     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2013-11-19 14:46       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-19 14:51       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-19 15:13         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-19 21:06           ` Jacob Pan
2013-11-20 10:28             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 10:58               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 16:24                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-11-20 16:33                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 16:38                     ` Arjan van de Ven

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