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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:21:23 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Extend mwait idle to optimize away CAL and RES
 interrupts to an idle CPU -v2
From: Venki Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
        Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
        Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> wrote:
>
>> [...] I did have to avoid x86 smpboot cleanup that Ingo
>> suggested as that did not seem trivial to me :-).
>
> Well, idletask_ti_flags is unacceptably ugly, please do the
> smpboot.c cleanup because that paves the way to add new features
> to the x86 idle code.
>

OK. Will look at this soon.
If everything else looks OK, can you queue up the first 3 patches in
the series somewhere so that it gets some wider testing. Things should
work without that idletask_ti_flags change.

Thanks,
Venki
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