Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] x86, mwaitt: introduce AMD mwaitt support

2015-05-19 Thread Huang Rui
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:57:06AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 04:01:08PM +0800, Huang Rui wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This patch set introduces a new instruction support on AMD Carrizo (Family > > 15h, Model 60h-6fh). It adds mwaitx idle function with a configurable > > tim

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] x86, mwaitt: introduce AMD mwaitt support

2015-05-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 04:01:08PM +0800, Huang Rui wrote: > Hi, > > This patch set introduces a new instruction support on AMD Carrizo (Family > 15h, Model 60h-6fh). It adds mwaitx idle function with a configurable > timer. The user can configure the idle method and timer value via the idle > ker

[RFC PATCH 0/4] x86, mwaitt: introduce AMD mwaitt support

2015-05-19 Thread Huang Rui
Hi, This patch set introduces a new instruction support on AMD Carrizo (Family 15h, Model 60h-6fh). It adds mwaitx idle function with a configurable timer. The user can configure the idle method and timer value via the idle kernel parameter. Some discussions of the background, please see: http://