Re: STI, HLT in acpi_cpu_idle_c1

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:08:32 -0400
On Thursday 17 June 2004 07:33 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     It kinda sounds like ACPI has bokered the other cpus.  I'm not sure
>     why one would even *want* to use ACPI to idle down Xeon's in an MP
>     system, actually :-)

Power and heat savings.

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Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 19:08:01 UTC

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