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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 08:50:17AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On the system with good power management and idle cpus (many of them), I'd
> expect most of the IPs to be pretty much equal -- arch specific version of
> "enter low power state" (mwait on recent intel machines, for example).
> 
> Would it make sense to mix the other registers, too?

Hmm....  Is there a useful way that we can do this in an
architecture-independent way?

						- Ted
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