Re: linux-2.6.0-test2: Never using pm_idle (CPU wasting power)

From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 18:26:11 EST


On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:58, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:45, Roger Larsson wrote:
>
> > This smells preemptive kernel, correct?
>
> Doesn't look like anything specific to kernel preemption to me.

Oh I really misgrok'ed this.

Yah, kernel preemption catches the reschedule off of the interrupt and
thus this is never true (always zero). The "never zero" thing confused
me, sorry.

Moving the stuff into the while loop is one option.

        Robert Love

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