On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:18:35PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> Lee, the last time I saw this discussion I thought it was identified that
> the multiple cores (or IIRC the multiple chips in a SMP motherboard) would
> only get out of sync when power management calls were made (hlt or
> switching the c-state). IIRC the workaround that was posted then was to
> just disable these in the kernel build.
not using 'hlt' when idling means that you spend 10s of Watts more power
on mostly idle systems.
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