Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] cpu: idle state framework for offline CPUs. | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:13:42 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:03 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > > This was the > > main objection to Venki's deepest sleep state for offline cpus patch. > > Well, my main objection was that is was a single raw function pointer > without any management layer around it. > > We have the exact same mess with the idle routine - and that has bitten > us in the past.
That said, I still think it makes sense to share this with the idle routine, we can make some callbacks unsuitable for hot-unplug just fine.
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