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authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>2012-09-21 13:47:18 +0200
committerJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>2012-09-21 13:47:18 +0200
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x86: introduce MWAIT-based, ACPI-less CPU idle driver
This is a port of Linux'es intel-idle driver serving the same purpose. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
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@@ -620,6 +620,14 @@ limit is ignored by Xen.
Specify if the MMConfig space should be enabled.
+### mwait-idle
+> `= <boolean>`
+
+> Default: `true`
+
+Use the MWAIT idle driver (with model specific C-state knowledge) instead
+of the ACPI based one.
+
### nmi
> `= ignore | dom0 | fatal`