Re: [v7 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-10-07 Thread Balbir Singh
* Vaidy sva...@linux.vnet.ibm.com [2009-10-07 16:56:48]: * Peter Zijlstra a.p.zijls...@chello.nl [2009-10-06 20:04:39]: On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 22:05 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: Also, the per-cpu nature of registration/unregistration of cpuidle has been maintained as ACPI needs

Re: [v7 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 16:56 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: * Peter Zijlstra a.p.zijls...@chello.nl [2009-10-06 20:04:39]: On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 22:05 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: Also, the per-cpu nature of registration/unregistration of cpuidle has been maintained as ACPI

Re: [v7 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-10-06 Thread Arun R Bharadwaj
* Arun R Bharadwaj a...@linux.vnet.ibm.com [2009-10-06 20:54:21]: Hi Please consider this for inclusion into the testing tree. This patchset introduces cpuidle infrastructure to POWER, prototyping for pSeries, and also does a major refactoring of current x86 idle power management and a

Re: [v7 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 22:05 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: Also, the per-cpu nature of registration/unregistration of cpuidle has been maintained as ACPI needs this. Right, so can't we ditch that and have acpi default to the lowest common C-state and warn when various cpus report different