From: Henning Schild <henning@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] why not halt in x86 multicore
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:00:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110701160026.0db036cd@leffe.cs.bell-labs.com> (raw)
Hi,
in pc/main.c idlehands() the kernel decides to release the CPU only
when you are not running a multicore kernel. As a result there is only
busy waiting. Unfortunately there is no hint telling why we do not let
the CPU rest a little.
> void
> idlehands(void)
> {
> if(conf.nmach == 1)
> halt();
> }
I am running a mostly idle plan9 VM on my laptop and it causes the
battery to discharge in no time. Right now my kernel has the condition
commented out and it seems to work fine. Still i would like
to understand why this condition was put there. It is probably causing a
lot of energy to be wasted which should better be for a good reason.
Henning
next reply other threads:[~2011-07-01 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-01 14:00 Henning Schild [this message]
2011-07-01 17:23 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-01 17:47 ` Ali Mashtizadeh
2011-07-01 17:51 ` Russ Cox
2011-07-01 18:01 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-01 18:35 ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-02 5:06 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-07-04 9:24 ` Henning Schild
2011-07-04 9:54 ` Sape Mullender
2011-07-04 13:02 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-04 13:13 ` Steve Simon
2011-07-04 13:43 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-04 13:47 ` Steve Simon
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