By the way, if you're planning to support C3 and below, how are you going to deal with the problem that both TSC and local APIC timers stop ticking when the processor is in C3? Solaris is so heavily dependent on TSC...
On Nov 30, 2007 11:28 AM, Eric Saxe <eric.saxe at sun.com> wrote: > I was thinking we would use the existing mwait code path to bring the > processor into the deeper c-states. > Are you suggesting that the c-state driver would contain the code that > could be invoked out of that path?... > or something else? > > > Thanks, > -Eric > > _______________________________________________ > tesla-dev mailing list > tesla-dev at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/tesla-dev >
