[PATCH 1/2] tickless idle cpus: core patch - v2
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Wed Apr 12 03:35:20 EST 2006
Srivatsa Vaddagiri writes:
> This is the v2 of the core patch to skip ticks when a CPU is idle.
> Changes since v1:
>
> - fix the buggy call to stop_hz_timer in idle_power4.S (hopefully it
> is correct now!).
It would be nice if we could arrange to call stop_hz_timer from the
top-level cpu_idle() function rather than having to call it from the
individual power_save() functions such as power4_idle(). Can you see
a problem with doing that?
Paul.
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