Subject: questions of cpuidle

From: [email-masked] (Alex Shi)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:28:01 +0800

On 12/10/2013 10:53 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 12/9/2013 10:08 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
>> And for monitor/mwait idle method, seems deep c-state cpu need to keep a
>> eye on memory bus. So seems the memory controller in cpu package is
>> impossible to get into sleep, right?
> not the memory bus
> the cache coherency logic ;-)
> 

Thanks a lot, Arjan!

But in Intel c7 state, l3 cache also flushed. Are there some other unit
monitor this?

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Thanks
    Alex