On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 15:56, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:45:11PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > > Can we get rid of the CONFIG option too? Or do folks who care (too?) > > much about wake-up latency prefer to turn off a CONFIG option over > > booting with nohlt? > > Some people have come to me concerned about the wakeup latency of having > the halt call in there, and it also looks like the PAL has a bug on our > platform that causes hangs when we call PAL_HALT_LIGHT (which we're > tracking down), so I wouldn't mind if the config option stuck around a > little longer (or was a boot time parameter at least). Jesse, Perhaps sn specific code (maybe sn_setup) could call disable_hlt() until you're comfortable leaving it on by default. Requiring a boot time command like option on your platform sounds error prone. Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Linux & Open Source Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Mar 4 10:55:16 2004
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