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Commit da5e09a1 authored by Zhao Yakui's avatar Zhao Yakui Committed by Andi Kleen
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ACPI : Create "idle=nomwait" bootparam



"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.

When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.

This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914

Signed-off-by: default avatarZhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
parent c1e3b377
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