Detailing The Idle Loop Ordering Problem & The Power Improvement In Linux 4.17

Posted by bob on Apr 18, 2018 9:42 AM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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Of the many great features/changes for Linux 4.17, one of the most exciting to us is the idle power efficiency and performance-per-Watt improvements on some systems thanks to a rework to the kernel's idle loop handling. Rafael Wysocki and Thomas Ilsche as two of the developers working on this big code change presented on their work today for this CPU idle loop ordering problem and its resolution.

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