HLT instruction on Opterons?

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Brian Hall

If the Linux kernel issues a HLT instruction to
an Opteron in a dual-CPU system while in an idle
loop, are there any power savings from this or is
it just ignored?
 
Brian said:
If the Linux kernel issues a HLT instruction to
an Opteron in a dual-CPU system while in an idle
loop, are there any power savings from this or is
it just ignored?
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I'm not sure of it's relevance, but my nForce2 chipset on an Athlon XP
effectively does that itself.

You could check dmesg, there's a check that displays it's output when you
boot, but then, who knows how accurate "OK" is :-p

Ben
 
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