On Thu 2018-12-27 16:41:50, David Wang wrote:
> For new Centaur CPUs the ucode will take care of the preservation of cache 
> coherence
> between CPU cores in C-states regardless of how deep the C-states are. So, it 
> is not
> necessary to flush the caches in software befor entering C3. And this useless 
> operation
> will cause performance drop for the cores which share some caches with the 
> idling core.  
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Wang <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>

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