Wu, Jackie wrote: > For the kernel IPI, it's the inter processor interrupt between CPU > cores. Does it really mean the interrupts to wake up the system?
actually it does. It wakes up the core if it was idle (asleep) before. > And I'm not sure if different cores in Intel Core2 Due CPU can sleep > separately. they can, to some degree. (it's a little complex; they can go to some level of sleep independently, but if they are both sleeping you get some "bonus" power savings) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
