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    x86: make poll_idle behave more like the other idle methods · 2c7e9fd4
    Joe Korty authored
    Make poll_idle() behave more like the other idle methods.
    
    Currently, poll_idle() returns immediately.  The other
    idle methods all wait indefinately for some condition
    to come true before returning.  poll_idle should emulate
    these other methods and also wait for a return condition,
    in this case, for need_resched() to become 'true'.
    
    Without this delay the idle loop spends all of its time
    in the outer loop that calls poll_idle.  This outer loop,
    these days, does real work, some of it under rcu locks.
    That work should only be done when idle is entered and
    when idle exits, not continuously while idle is spinning.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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