From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help understanding slow down
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 02:29:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040525022941.62ab4cc4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040525103238.GA4212@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> with the patch below we will print a big fat warning. (I did not want to
> deny idle=poll altogether - future HT implementations might work fine
> with polling idle.)
idle=poll is handy when profiling the kernel with oprofile clock-unhalted
events. Because if you use the normal halt-based idle loop no profile
"ticks" are accounted to idle time at all and the results are really hard
to understand.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-25 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-24 0:32 Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 0:57 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 1:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24 1:25 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-05-24 1:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24 1:51 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 2:42 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24 2:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-24 6:23 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 6:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24 6:39 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 7:21 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 7:44 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24 7:50 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 7:59 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24 10:43 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-05-24 14:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-24 7:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-24 8:00 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-25 10:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25 9:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-25 11:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25 9:58 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-25 12:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24 6:33 ` Paul Rolland
2004-05-24 17:28 ` Roger Luethi
2004-05-24 1:37 Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-24 1:50 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 3:31 ` Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-24 6:14 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 18:36 ` Robert M. Stockmann
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