Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Renninger <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 8/8] intel_idle: create a native cpuidle driver for select intel processors | Date | Fri, 28 May 2010 09:46:32 +0200 |
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On Friday 28 May 2010 03:44:16 Len Brown wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Thomas Renninger wrote: ... > > > This driver does not yet know about cpu online/offline > > > and thus will not yet play well with cpu-hotplug. I thought this is also about soft on/offlining. > > > What means does not play well yet, suspend or manually offlining a > > core will eventually (for sure?) hang the machine? > > It means less power savings savings than optimal > for processors not present at module load time. Ok, not really sever... > > > If this is known broken, should this already be spread through > > linux-next? > > If you know somebody with a system that supports CPU hot-add > on one of the processors supported by intel_idle, and they > are willing to test linux-next, please have them contact me. Real CPU hotplug is broken with acpi processor driver as well, eventually it got addressed lately. Anyway, not sever...
Thanks,
Thomas
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