On Fri, 25 May 2007 23:20:25 +0200 "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is idle=poll a quick and dirty way to burn your box in flames ? yep ;) It makes the CPU(s) busy-wait when they have nothing else to do. It was originally added as a thing to maybe save a few cycles of latency in responding to interrupts. It's now useful as a trick to prevent oprofile from producing confusing numbers. I don't think it has any other uses. - 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/
