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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-05-14 08:47:40 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-05-17 22:57:20 +0200
commita738d897b7b03b83488ae74a9bc03d26a2875dc6 (patch)
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parentf26a3988917913b3d11b2bd741601a2c64ab9204 (diff)
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x86: remove mwait capability C-state check
Vegard Nossum reports: | powertop shows between 200-400 wakeups/second with the description | "<kernel IPI>: Rescheduling interrupts" when all processors have load (e.g. | I need to run two busy-loops on my 2-CPU system for this to show up). | | The bisect resulted in this commit: | | commit 0c07ee38c9d4eb081758f5ad14bbffa7197e1aec | Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:16 2008 +0100 | | x86: use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states remove the functional effects of this patch and make mwait unconditional. A future patch will turn off mwait on specific CPUs where that causes power to be wasted. Bisected-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c11
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 67e9b4a1e89d..c7b6a694ca22 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -99,15 +99,6 @@ static void mwait_idle(void)
local_irq_enable();
}
-
-static int __cpuinit mwait_usable(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
-{
- if (force_mwait)
- return 1;
- /* Any C1 states supported? */
- return c->cpuid_level >= 5 && ((cpuid_edx(5) >> 4) & 0xf) > 0;
-}
-
/*
* On SMP it's slightly faster (but much more power-consuming!)
* to poll the ->work.need_resched flag instead of waiting for the
@@ -131,7 +122,7 @@ void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
" performance may degrade.\n");
}
#endif
- if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT) && mwait_usable(c)) {
+ if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT)) {
/*
* Skip, if setup has overridden idle.
* One CPU supports mwait => All CPUs supports mwait
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