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    x86: disable mwait for AMD family 10H/11H CPUs · e9623b35
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    The previous revert of 0c07ee38 left
    out the mwait disable condition for AMD family 10H/11H CPUs.
    
    Andreas Herrman said:
    
    It depends on the CPU. For AMD CPUs that support MWAIT this is wrong.
    Family 0x10 and 0x11 CPUs will enter C1 on HLT. Powersavings then
    depend on a clock divisor and current Pstate of the core.
    
    If all cores of a processor are in halt state (C1) the processor can
    enter the C1E (C1 enhanced) state. If mwait is used this will never
    happen.
    
    Thus HLT saves more power than MWAIT here.
    
    It might be best to switch off the mwait flag for these AMD CPU
    families like it was introduced with commit
    f039b754 (x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD
    Family 10)
    
    Re-add the AMD families 10H/11H check and disable the mwait usage for
    those.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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