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arch/tile: add "nop" after "nap" to help GX idle power draw

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This avoids the hardware istream prefetcher doing unnecessary work.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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Chris Metcalf 2012-03-29 15:57:18 -04:00
parent bfffe79bc2
commit 8c92ba6c32
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arch/tile/kernel/smp.c
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@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void smp_stop_cpu_interrupt(void)
set_cpu_online(smp_processor_id(), 0);
arch_local_irq_disable_all();
for (;;)
asm("nap");
asm("nap; nop");
}
/* This function calls the 'stop' function on all other CPUs in the system. */