linux/drivers/idle
Peter Zijlstra ea81174789 sched, idle: Fix the idle polling state logic
Mike reported that commit 7d1a9417 ("x86: Use generic idle loop")
regressed several workloads and caused excessive reschedule
interrupts.

The patch in question failed to notice that the x86 code had an
inverted sense of the polling state versus the new generic code (x86:
default polling, generic: default !polling).

Fix the two prominent x86 mwait based idle drivers and introduce a few
new generic polling helpers (fixing the wrong smp_mb__after_clear_bit
usage).

Also switch the idle routines to using tif_need_resched() which is an
immediate TIF_NEED_RESCHED test as opposed to need_resched which will
end up being slightly different.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nc03imb0etuefmzybzj7sprf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-25 13:53:10 +02:00
..
i7300_idle.c intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock 2013-02-19 08:42:47 +01:00
intel_idle.c sched, idle: Fix the idle polling state logic 2013-09-25 13:53:10 +02:00
Kconfig drivers/idle: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2013-01-21 14:52:43 -08:00
Makefile intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors 2010-05-28 14:26:20 -04:00