On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:07:38 +0300 Alexander Motin <mav_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Gary Jennejohn wrote: (snip) > > So, what else did you do to reduce interrupts so much? > > > > Ah, I think I see it now. My desktop has only C1 enabled. Is that it? > > Unfortunately, it appears that only C1 is supported :( > > Yes, as I have said, at this moment empty ticks skipped only while CPU > is in C2/C3 states. In C1 state there is no way to handle lost events on > wake up. While it may be not very dangerous, it is not very good. There's an alternative way to catch exit-from-C1 atomically: use MWAIT with bit0 of ECX set (``Treat masked interrupts as break events'' in Intel 64 and IA-32 Architecthres Software Developer's Manual). In this way we can put each core individually into deeper Cx state without additional costs (SMIs and the like) as a bonus. The problem is that it may be unavailable to earlier CPUs that support MONITOR/MWAIT instructions: we should check the presense of this feature by examining bit0 and bit1 of ECX that is returned by CPUID 5. -- YAMAMOTO, Taku <taku_at_tackymt.homeip.net>Received on Mon Aug 30 2010 - 08:59:30 UTC
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