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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Disable Xen PowerNow! support on Opteron 2nd gen

To: "Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Disable Xen PowerNow! support on Opteron 2nd gen and earlier processors
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:41:08 +0000
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On 4/2/08 21:52, "Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Would turning off interrupts solve it?  It might be a bit brute
> force, but there's certainly a prechange notifier event and a
> postchange notifier event to use to turn them on and off.
> 
> Alternately, the prechange event could sleep until woken by
> the timer interrupt, which would increase the chance that all
> frequency changes take place at the start of an interrupt.

Perhaps you could find out if the big deltas happen on a timer interrupt
that happens between pre-notification and post-notification? If so you could
indeed disable event delivery and that might well fix it.

 -- Keir



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