Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:44:04 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 3/3] x86: use mwait for trigger API |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:34:26 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> If the cpu implements monitor/mwait, use it for the trigger API. > > TODO: work out if any mwait hints are going to be useful here.
monitor/mwait is rather really expensive.. are we really sure we want to use this? (from an Intel cpu perspective the answer is very likely no; but I don't know what AMD does here)
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