On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:33:12PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > How do we handle interrupts and timers during this interval? You seem > > > to disable interrupts and hold the cpu at idle for 0.95 sec. It may > > > cause timeouts and overflows for network interrupts right? > > The x86 mwait/monitor instruction can detect interrupt and complete execution > > even interrupt is disabled, so this isn't an issue. > > Cool, this will save a lot of trouble :) This is only available in newer Intel CPUs. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
