* Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Most systems don't have C3 right now. And on those that have
> > (laptops) it tends to be not that critical because they normally
> > don't run workload where gettimeofday() is really time critical (and
> > nobody expects them to be particularly fast anyways)
>
> and that got changed when the blade people decided to start using
> laptop processors ......
and some systems disable the lapic in C2 already: BIOSs started doing
lowlevel-C3 in their C2 functionality and lie to the OS about it.
Ingo
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