Re: [RFC 0/3] sched/idle: run-time support for setting idle polling

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:27:13 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:16:10PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:48:35 +0200
> > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Ideally every cpuidle driver would get 'polling' as a
> > > default state and the QoS constraints might select it if nothing else
> > > matches.
> > 
> > So, I didn't know we had support for polling from the idle
> > thread via cpuidle. This solves the first part of the problem.
> 
> I'm not sure we do; I'm saying that's what we should do ;-)

Yeah, but I think it's done already. Although I haven't tested it yet:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state0/name 
POLL
[root@localhost ~]# 

This is installed by drivers/cpuidle/driver.c:poll_idle_init().
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