[PATCH v10 08/11] governors/haltpoll: drop kvm_para_available() check

Ankur Arora ankur.a.arora at oracle.com
Tue Feb 25 11:06:16 PST 2025


Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl at gentwo.org> writes:

> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Ankur Arora wrote:
>
>> So, we can safely forgo the kvm_para_available() check. This also
>> allows cpuidle-haltpoll to be tested on baremetal.
>
> I would hope that we will have this functionality as the default on
> baremetal after testing in the future.

Yeah, supporting haltpoll style adaptive polling on baremetal has some
way to go.

But, with Lifeng's patch-6 "ACPI: processor_idle: Support polling state
for LPI" we do get polling support in acpi-idle.

> Reviewed-by; Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl at linux.com>

Thanks Christoph!

--
ankur



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