On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 14:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl> > wrote: > > > > The problem the patch is trying to address is not having to scan an > > entire package for idle cores on every wakeup now that packages are > > getting stupid big. > > No, it does something *else* too. That whole "left-right" logic to > (according to the commit message) "prevent bouncing" is entirely new, > afaik. > > So it is *not* just about avoiding to have to scan the whole package. > It changes actual semantics too. No?
Both things change semantics, not looking at the entire package is new too. But yeah I guess you could look at the exact cross-stitching as an enhancement to the 'idle_buggy' thing. -- 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/
