Core2Duo: What timer is ticking under C4 ?

zvivered · ‎01-01-2011

Hello,

I'm working with Core2Duo (ICH8 as south bridge).

I want to do the following steps:

Step 1: Do some calculations,

Step 2: Arm the timer for few seconds

Step 3:Get into C4 using the following code.

Step 4: Get an interruptwhen thetimer reaches 0

Step 5: Go back to Step 1

The code used to move to C4 is:

mov EAX, 0x30 (Bits 0-3 define C4 sub state. What sub state shoud I use ?)
mov ECX, 0x0 (Should I use 0x1 ?)
mwait

When I ran cpuid with EAX=5I got:

ECX=3 :

Bit 00: Enumeration of Monitor-Mwait extensions (beyond EAX and EBX registers) supported

Bit 01: Supports treating interrupts as break-event for MWAIT, even when interrupts disabled

EDX=0x22220:

Bits 03 - 00: Number of C0 sub C-states supported using MWAIT

Bits 07 - 04: Number of C1 sub C-states supported using MWAIT

Bits 11 - 08: Number of C2 sub C-states supported using MWAIT

Bits 15 - 12: Number of C3 sub C-states supported using MWAIT

Bits 19 - 16: Number of C4 sub C-states supported using MWAIT

So the timer I will use has to generate an interrupt after TBD seconds and also must keep working under C4.

Can you help ?

Thanks.

Aubrey_W_ · ‎01-14-2011

Hello,

I moved this thread to the Intel AVX and CPU Instructions forum, which is for general CPUinstructions as well as AVX. I'll see if I can find someone to answer your question.

Best regards,
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Aubrey W.
Intel Software Network Support

zvivered · ‎01-15-2011

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for your cooperation.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks,
Zvika.