RE: [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait ornmi

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jun 05 2012 - 15:46:10 EST


On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 21:43 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> My idea of the stateful hotplug is to have a state which just gets rid
> of the interrupts, timers and some other crap (mostly IPIs) but allows
> an ad hoc resurrection of the cpu.
>
> Ideally the state transition would be driven by the load-balancer.
>
No that's retarded.. Just make it a proper idle state, don't go muck
about with hotplug from the load-balancer.


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