Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:41:14 -0700 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] workqueue: reimplement CPU hotplug to keep idle workers |
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Hello, Rafael.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:44:04PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > 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.
I see, so the highest frequency user would most likely be suspend/resume - especially with opportunistic approach like the one used in androids.
Thanks for the explanation.
-- tejun
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