Re: [PATCH 2/5] powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Tue Mar 23 2010 - 09:27:45 EST


Hey,

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:58:58PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > It could already be set in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c and
> > powernow-k8 could use cpu_has(cpu, X86_FEATURE_CPB);
>
> I'd still like to cache the cpb_capable value locally instead of getting
> x86_cpuinfo percpu var and querying it. Especially if this happens often
> and not only at driver init.

If it's a percpu var, isn't it local anyway?

Best,
Dominik
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