On Thu, 21 May 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:56:32PM +0800, Huang Rui wrote:
> > Looks like good use case. Boris, could we try to implement it?
>
> Andy had some suggestions on how to do it here:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/555d3629.8080...@kernel.org
>
> which should be doable. Also, you'd probably need to set ECX[0]=0b too,
> so that MWAITX doesn't get woken up by interrupts while MWAIT-ing with
> interrupts disabled. I.e., this sequence:
>
> cli
> rdtsc
> shove the computed timeout into ebx
> mov $2,%ecx # this enables the timer and disables
> IRQs while MWAITing
> mwaitx
> sti
And the above sucks for udelay, because you disable interrupts for
random amounts of time.
Thanks,
tglx
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