Re: [RFC PATCH V3 0/3] PM/CPU: Parallel enalbing nonboot cpus with resume devices

[Lan Tianyu]

On 2014å10æ09æ 09:18, Lan Tianyu wrote:
> On 2014å10æ09æ 04:54, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:32:02PM +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote:
>>> This patchset is to parallel enabling nonboot cpus with resuming devices
>>> during system resume in order to accelerate S2RAM. From test result on
>>> a 8 logical core Haswell machine, system resume time reduces from 347ms
>>> to 217ms with this patchset.
>>>
>>> In the current world, all nonboot cpus are enabled serially during system
>>> resume. System resume sequence is that boot cpu enables nonboot cpu one by
>>> one and then resume devices. Before resuming devices, there are few tasks
>>> assigned to nonboot cpus after they are brought up. This wastes cpu usage.
>>>
>>> This patchset is to allow boot cpu to go forward to resume devices after
>>> bringing up one nonboot cpu and starting a thread. The thread will be in
>>> charge of bringing up other frozen cpus. The thread will be scheduled to
>>> the first online cpu to run . This makes enabling cpu2~x parallel with
>>> resuming devices.
>>
>> So I feel we should really clean up hotplug before doing anything like
>> this. Its a trainwreck and just piling more and more hacks ontop isn't
>> going to help any.
>>
> 
> Hi Peter:
> 	Sorry, I don't know the gap of hotplug clearly. Could you elaborate it?
> 

Hi Peter:
	Could you elaborate the gap of hotplug? Thanks.

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Best regards
Tianyu Lan
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