From f039b754714a422959027cb18bb33760eb8153f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 19:27:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10 It doesn't put the CPU into deeper sleep states, so it's better to use the standard idle loop to save power. But allow to reenable it anyways for benchmarking. I also removed the obsolete idle=halt on i386 Cc: andreas.herrmann@amd.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c') diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c index d8d5ccc245c8..4f21765078b7 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c @@ -288,16 +288,18 @@ void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) static int __init idle_setup (char *str) { - if (!strncmp(str, "poll", 4)) { + if (!strcmp(str, "poll")) { printk("using polling idle threads.\n"); pm_idle = poll_idle; - } + } else if (!strcmp(str, "mwait")) + force_mwait = 1; + else + return -1; boot_option_idle_override = 1; - return 1; + return 0; } - -__setup("idle=", idle_setup); +early_param("idle", idle_setup); /* Prints also some state that isn't saved in the pt_regs */ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs * regs) -- cgit v1.2.2