Re: [RFC PATCH v3 5/6] sched: pack the idle load balance

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Apr 26 2013 - 06:56:17 EST


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 08:30:58AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> For x86 we should not be setting such flag then; we don't have a way for some cpu packages to
> go to an extra deep power state if they're completely idle.
> (this afaik is true for both Intel and AMD)

You say 'some'; this implies we do for others, right?

We can dynamically set the required flags in the arch setup when it makes sense.
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