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    x86: remove mwait capability C-state check · a738d897
    Ingo Molnar authored
    Vegard Nossum reports:
    
    | powertop shows between 200-400 wakeups/second with the description
    | "<kernel IPI>: Rescheduling interrupts" when all processors have load (e.g.
    | I need to run two busy-loops on my 2-CPU system for this to show up).
    |
    | The bisect resulted in this commit:
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    | commit 0c07ee38
    | Date:   Wed Jan 30 13:33:16 2008 +0100
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    |     x86: use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states
    
    remove the functional effects of this patch and make mwait unconditional.
    
    A future patch will turn off mwait on specific CPUs where that causes
    power to be wasted.
    Bisected-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    a738d897
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