Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86, mwaitt: add monitorx and mwaitx instruction

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 09:44:59AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> [1] For those who weren't bitten by this repeatedly, modern Intel CPUs
> (at least Sandy Bridge, anyway) will, by default, detect when all
> cores are in C1 or deeper, think to themselves "wow, the OS selected
> C1 -- it must want a very deep sleep indeed", and put the whole
> package into some kind of deep sleep state.  The subsequent wakeup
> takes tens of milliseconds.  Doing this in udelay would be awful.

That's a good point. Reportedly, the current MWAITX enters something
between C0 and C1 but the way I understood it, going forward, it will
enter deeper sleep states.

So for shallow C-states, your idle enter/exit latency is low enough but
I'd guess deeper states would be a problem.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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