Re: x86_64 and AMD with C1E

[Mikhail Kshevetskiy]

2007/10/25, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 10/24/2007 05:26 PM, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I fill something wrong here.
> >>> Is it possible to reduce the amount of timer interrupts?
> >>> Is it possible to force enable C1,C2 and C3 states when c1e disabled?
> >>>
> >> How are you disabling C1E?
> >>
> >>
> > dirty hack, i just follow the FreeBSD way and clear C1e bit in lapic
> > initialization code. I make it for test purpose only, so i do not produce a
> > patch.
> >
>
> Why does disabling C1E disable C1, C2 and C3?

i don't know. Normally (C1E enabled) i have C1 power state only. When
I disable C1E, i have no any power state (AMD spec say i should have
C1 and C2; C3 is optional)

> Thomas, in the case of the machines where C1E is disabled on CPU 0 but
> enabled on CPU 1, could we just disable it? Maybe it's a BIOS bug and the
> vendor just forgot to disable CPU 1...
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