On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:52:53AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Another solution would be to have a global mask of 'idle' cpus and send > an IPI to them when a new KSE is scheduled on a non-idle cpu that would > simply serve to wakeup the HLT. IPIs are nasty, but there are large > (power consumption) advantages to standardizing on the HLT methodology.
Or, as I explained in my previous post, only HLT the [virtual] CPU if the other [virtual] CPU that is sharing the same execution & cache units is not HLT'd itself. If the other one is HLT'd, then not do the HLT. > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Bosko Milekic * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
