Re: 2.6.14-rt13

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 24 2005 - 10:07:23 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK, I used this as an exercise to learn how kobject and sysfs work
> (I've been putting this off for too long). So if this isn't exactly
> proper, let me know :-)
>
> Ingo, This could be a temporary patch until we come up with a better
> solution. This adds /sys/kernel/idle/idle_poll, which if idle=poll is
> _not_ set, it still lets you switch the machine to idle=poll on the
> fly, as well as turn it off. If you have idle=poll, this doesn't even
> show up.

ok, i've applied this one too. Could you also submit it upstream (and
implement it for x86)? It makes sense to enable/disable the
polling-based idle routine runtime.

Ingo
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