Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:05:14 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add i386 idle notifier (take 3) |
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:05:00 -0800 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > Here is the latest version of the idle notifier for i386. > This patch is against 2.6.20-rc1 (GIT). In this kernel, the idle > loop code was modified such that the lowest level idle > routines do not have loops anymore (e.g., poll_idle). As such, > we do not need to call enter_idle() in all the interrupt handlers. > > This patch also duplicates the x86-64 bug fix for a race condition > as posted by Venkatesh Pallipadi from Intel. > > changelog: > - add idle notification mechanism to i386 >
None of the above text is actually usable as a changelog entry. We are left wondering:
- why is this patch needed?
- what does it do?
- how does it do it?
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