Re: cpuidle asymmetry (was Re: [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidledriver for apm)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 22:17 -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> 
> Moorestown is already an example of an asymmetric system,
> since its deepest c-state is available on cpu0, but not on cpu1.
> So it needs different tables for each cpu. 

wtf are these hardware guys smoking and how the heck are we supposed to
schedule on such a machine? Prefer to keep cpu1 busy while idling cpu0?
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