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Re: [PATCH 0/3] idle, Honor Hardware Disabled States

From Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/3] idle, Honor Hardware Disabled States
Date 2016-03-24 23:00 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/23/2016 04:05 PM, Len Brown wrote:
>> This patch assumes that if a package state is disabled,
>> the corresponding core state must be disabled.
>> That assumption is false.
>> Indeed, that is a very popular and useful configuration.
>>
>> But even if that were not the case, this software is not necessary,
>> since the hardware handles demotion "c-state clipping" automatically.
>>
>> Yes, there is a case where a certain version of a certain processor
>> has broken demotion, but this isn't the right fix for that.
>> The right fix for that is here:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109081
>
> Len, should I rebase on top of this?  Would that work for you?


I guess I wasn't clear.
I don't see the benefit of your patch.
Please explain it to me.

thanks,
-Len

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[PATCH 0/3] idle, Honor Hardware Disabled States Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2016-03-21 14:00 +0100
  [PATCH 1/3] idle, rename MSR_NHM_SNB_PKG_CST_CFG_CTL to MSR_PKG_CST_CONFIG_CONTROL Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2016-03-21 14:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] idle, rename MSR_NHM_SNB_PKG_CST_CFG_CTL to MSR_PKG_CST_CONFIG_CONTROL Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-03-23 21:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] idle, Honor Hardware Disabled States Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-03-23 21:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] idle, Honor Hardware Disabled States Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2016-03-24 01:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 0/3] idle, Honor Hardware Disabled States Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-03-24 23:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 0/3] idle, Honor Hardware Disabled States Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2016-03-28 16:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/3] idle, Honor Hardware Disabled States Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-03-31 07:00 +0200

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