Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] cpu: idle state framework for offline CPUs. | Date | Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:22:02 +0200 |
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On Sunday 09 August 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Also, approaches such as [1] can make use of this > > > extended infrastructure instead of putting the CPU to an arbitrary C-state > > > when it is offlined, thereby providing the system administrator a rope to hang > > > himself with should he feel the need to do so. > > I didn't see the reason why administrator needs to know which state offline cpu > > should stay. Don't know about powerpc side, but in x86 side, it appears deepest > > C-state is already preferred. > > > > Agreed, deepest c-state is always best, there's no need to make it configurable.
Unless it doesn't work.
Rafael
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