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[PATCH] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10

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It doesn't put the CPU into deeper sleep states, so it's better to use the standard
idle loop to save power. But allow to reenable it anyways for benchmarking.

I also removed the obsolete idle=halt on i386

Cc: andreas.herrmann@amd.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
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@ -695,8 +695,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed
See Documentation/ide.txt.
idle= [HW]
Format: idle=poll or idle=halt
idle= [X86]
Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait
Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance
of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system
run hot. Not recommended.
idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose
to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle
loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same
as idle=poll.
ignore_loglevel [KNL]
Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/