On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:05:00 -0800 Stephane Eranian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Here is the latest version of the idle notifier for i386. > This patch is against 2.6.20-rc1 (GIT). In this kernel, the idle > loop code was modified such that the lowest level idle > routines do not have loops anymore (e.g., poll_idle). As such, > we do not need to call enter_idle() in all the interrupt handlers. > > This patch also duplicates the x86-64 bug fix for a race condition > as posted by Venkatesh Pallipadi from Intel. > > changelog: > - add idle notification mechanism to i386 > None of the above text is actually usable as a changelog entry. We are left wondering: - why is this patch needed? - what does it do? - how does it do it? The three questions which all changelogs should answer ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
