Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:18:38 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [v8 PATCH 2/8]: cpuidle: implement a list based approach to register a set of idle routines. |
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> How about something like this.. > If the arch does not enable CONFIG_CPU_IDLE, the cpuidle_idle_call > which is called from cpu_idle() should call default_idle without > involving the registering cpuidle steps. This should prevent bloating > up of the kernel for archs which dont want to use cpuidle.
On x86 some people want small kernel too, so selecting it on a architecture granuality is not good. Also you can make it default, you just need to slim it down first.
-Andi
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