[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Eliminate cache flushing when entering C3 on

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Subject:	[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Eliminate cache flushing when entering C3 on select AMD processors
From:	"Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:56:26 -0500
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Thread-topic:	[PATCH] Eliminate cache flushing when entering C3 on select AMD processors

AMD Fam15h processors have a shared cache. It does not need 
to be be flushed when entering C3 and doing so causes reduces
performance. Modify acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check to
prevent these processors from flushing when entering C3.

Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>

diff -r 510d84507f6b xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c      Fri Jun 10 10:53:11 2011 -0500
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c      Fri Jun 10 11:10:05 2011 -0500
@@ -549,7 +549,8 @@
     flags->bm_check = 0;
     if ( num_online_cpus() == 1 )
         flags->bm_check = 1;
-    else if ( c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL )
+    else if ( ( c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL ) ||
+              ( ( c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD ) && ( c->x86 == 0x15 ) ) )
     {
         /*
          * Today all MP CPUs that support C3 share cache.      

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