[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH V4 3/5] cpuidle: default idle driver for x86

[Trinabh Gupta <trinabh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/23/2011 08:43 AM, Len Brown wrote:
> Why is this patch a step forward?
Hi Len,

I have basically moved the code for arch default and mwait
idle from arch/x86/kernel/process.c to a driver. This was
suggested by Venki (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/19/460)
as part of pm_idle cleanup and direct call of
cpuidle_idle_call(). There is not much new code here.

> > +obj-$(CONFIG_X86)                              += default_driver.o
> BTW, that's a pretty generic name for an x86 specific idle driver...
>
> I think that on builds that support intel_idle and acpi_idle,
> everything in this file will be unused, unless somebody uses some
> debugging cmdline params that should have been deleted ages ago.
Yes, I agree that the name has to be x86 specific. I think the
routines would be used for pre-nehalem architectures that use
arch default or mwait.

Thanks,
-Trinabh

> thanks,
> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
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