Mladen Nikitovic wrote: > Hi, > > I've been informed that there is a "power-aware" version of the > original idle-thread in OpenSolaris. My understanding is that this > version should execute the halt-instruction, which in turn disables > the clock-tree of the processor. In the original version, the > idle-thread continues checking different queues etc. >
There's a good post about the idle thread here http://blogs.sun.com/bholler/entry/the_most_executed_code_in And if you're interested in power management, check out the Tesla project http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/tesla/ -- Rafael Vanoni Sun Campus Ambassador @ UFRGS, Brazil _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
