Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] CFS idle injection

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:23:04PM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> what is WFI?

Wait For Interrupt; very like the x86 HLT thing.

> For Intel, idle states are hints to the HW. The FW decides how far the
> idle can go based on many factors, device states included, some are
> visible to the OS some are not. We just to help mature such deep idle
> conditions.

On some ARM you have to manually orchestrate cluster idle, which is
clustered idle states in cpuidle. The up-side is that you explicitly
know about them, the down side is that its cross CPU bits and a freak
show (think doing cross CPU atomics while a CPU isn't in the coherency
domain yet).
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