On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:31:22PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > The poll function is called when a timer expired or if we force to poll when > the cpu_idle_force_poll option is set. > > The poll function does: > > local_irq_enable(); > while (!tif_need_resched()) > cpu_relax(); > > This default poll function suits for the x86 arch because its rep; nop; > hardware power optimization. But on other archs, this optimization does not > exists and we are not saving power. The arch specific bits may want to > optimize this loop by adding their own optimization.
This doesn't make sense to me; should an arch not either implement an actual idle driver or implement cpu_relax() properly, why allow for a third weird option? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
