Re: [PATCH 1/3] cpuidle/menu: stop seeking deeper idle if current state is too deep

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 23:29 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> The obsolete commit 71abbbf85 want to introduce a dynamic cstates,
> but it was removed for long time. Just left the nonsense deeper
> cstate
> checking.
> 
> Since all target_residency and exit_latency are going longer in
> deeper
> idle state, no needs to waste some cpu cycle on useless seeking.

Makes me wonder if it would be worth documenting the
requirement that c-states be listed in increasing
order?

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>