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    "name": "[v3,0/3] Enable PMD power management on Arm",
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        "From": "Feifei Wang <feifei.wang2@arm.com>",
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        "Cc": "dev@dpdk.org, david.hunt@intel.com, david.marchand@redhat.com,\n thomas@monjalon.net, stephen@networkplumber.org, nd@arm.com,\n Feifei Wang <feifei.wang2@arm.com>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v3 0/3] Enable PMD power management on Arm",
        "Date": "Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:26:46 +0800",
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    "content": "For Arm aarch, use WFE instructions to enable PMD power management.\n\nTest Results:\ndynamic instructions over 1sec\twithout wfe\twith wfe\tpercentage\nampere-altra\t\t\t6,298,483,712\t9,117,624\t-99.855%\nthunderx2\t\t\t6,990,909,373\t3,247,226\t-99.954%\n\nWhen power efficient PMD is enabled by using WFE on Arm, if no pkts\nreceived, the instructions that CPU executes is reduced by 99%.\n\nV2:\n1. move rte_wake_up API out of signal_exit(David Marchand, Thomas, Stephen)\n2. Add test results when using wfe on ARM server\n\nv3:\n1. make code cleaner (Stephen)\n\nFeifei Wang (3):\n  eal: add 8 bits case for wait scheme\n  eal: add power mgmt support on Arm\n  examples/l3fwd-power: enable PMD power monitor on Arm\n\n examples/l3fwd-power/main.c        | 25 +++++++++++\n lib/eal/arm/include/rte_pause_64.h | 32 +++++++++++--\n lib/eal/arm/rte_cpuflags.c         |  5 +++\n lib/eal/arm/rte_power_intrinsics.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--\n 4 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)"
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