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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jun 05 2012 - 03:39:42 EST


On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:10 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> I disagree. Deactivating a cpu for power saving is halfway to hotplug
> anyway.

No, that's only so for broken hardware. On sane hardware idling is
sufficient.
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