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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] workqueue: reimplement CPU hotplug to keep idle workers
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On Friday, July 20, 2012, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:22:30PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I really think people who use hotplug at high frequencies are on drugs
> > and doing it wrong.
>
> I don't know. It does make some sense. It's not like we have any
> other mechanism to keep some processors completely quiesient, which
> could make a noticeable difference from powersaving POV compared to
> mostly idle. Rafael, can you please chime in and explain how / where
> / how freqeuntly / etc CPU hotplug is used for powersaving?

Well, there are use cases I'm not really familiar with.

Pretty much the only use case I'm sufficiently familiar with is
suspend/hibernate where we unplug all of the nonboot CPUs at one point.

The other use cases, which I don't really think are entirely valid,
are on some ARM platforms where CPUs are unplugged instead of being put into
C-states or equivalent (because we don't have a good mechanism for handling
multiprocessor C-states; there's a set of patches for that waiting for
the merge window in the Len's tree). I'm hoping to get rid of those
use cases in future entirely.

Thanks,
Rafael


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