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From: "gaoliming" <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>
To: <devel@edk2.groups.io>, <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Cc: "'Michael D Kinney'" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
	"'Laszlo Ersek'" <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: 回复: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2] MdePkg: use CpuPause() in CpuDeadLoop()
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:04:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <009301d71c5b$d512a6d0$7f37f470$@byosoft.com.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210318184504.2745112-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>

Ankur:
  Seemly, the patch is missing in this mail. 

Thanks
Liming
> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> 代表 Ankur Arora
> 发送时间: 2021年3月19日 2:45
> 收件人: devel@edk2.groups.io
> 抄送: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>; Liming Gao
> <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>; Michael D Kinney
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> 主题: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2] MdePkg: use CpuPause() in CpuDeadLoop()
> 
> CpuPause() might allow the CPU to go into a lower power state
> state while we spin.
> 
> On X86, CpuPause() executes a PAUSE instruction which the Intel
> and AMD specs describe as follows:
> 
> Intel:
>   "PAUSE: An additional function of the PAUSE instruction is to reduce
>   the power consumed by a processor while executing a spin loop. A
>   processor can execute a spin-wait loop extremely quickly, causing the
>   processor to consume a lot of power while it waits for the resource it
>   is spinning on to become available. Inserting a pause instruction in a
>   spin-wait loop greatly reduces the processorb



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-19  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-18 18:45 [PATCH v2] MdePkg: use CpuPause() in CpuDeadLoop() Ankur Arora
2021-03-19  1:04 ` gaoliming [this message]
2021-03-19 14:46   ` 回复: [edk2-devel] " Laszlo Ersek

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