On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:05:00 -0800
Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is the latest version of the idle notifier for i386.
> This patch is against 2.6.20-rc1 (GIT). In this kernel, the idle
> loop code was modified such that the lowest level idle
> routines do not have loops anymore (e.g., poll_idle). As such,
> we do not need to call enter_idle() in all the interrupt handlers.
>
> This patch also duplicates the x86-64 bug fix for a race condition
> as posted by Venkatesh Pallipadi from Intel.
>
> changelog:
> - add idle notification mechanism to i386
>
None of the above text is actually usable as a changelog entry. We are
left wondering:
- why is this patch needed?
- what does it do?
- how does it do it?
The three questions which all changelogs should answer ;)
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