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

From: Venki Pallipadi
Date: Mon Feb 27 2012 - 13:21:22 EST


On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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