idle process in x86 linux

Xin Tong <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:28:27 -0400

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-8086
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I am wondering why idle process is implemented as infinite loop with
HLT instruction. how does it compare to MWAIT and MONITOR instruction
sequence ?

Xin

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