add option to use a busy waiting within the idle loop #1243
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Instead of the
hlt
instruction, the idle loop use thepause
instruction. => lower latency to wake up the core, but higher energy consumption.In addition, this PR support
monitor
/mwait
instructions. In this, the kernel hasn't to send an IPI to wakeup a core. The second optimization is that the kernels sends only an IPI, if the core is halted.