kernelnewbies.kernelnewbies.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Power saving in case of CPU hotplugin
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 13:13:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160907111336.GA10600@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGrgb4USuXpFaRO0aLZuQ4o0MFjWBesktCSctn6PPWS9+cWM+A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 02:31:46PM +0530, Debdipta Ghosh wrote:
> HEllo all,
> 
> I was going through a linux well known concept, hot plugin of cpu cores:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
> 
> Is it more power saving than highest C-State and P-State?
> 
> If we make one cpu offline, it disappears from the OS as it is not present, Is
> that means that CPU is powered off?

It all depends on your hardware.  Some platforms can turn the CPUs off,
some can not.

Sorry, not much help, I know, but the variety of hardware out there in
the world is amazing...

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-07 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-07  9:01 Power saving in case of CPU hotplugin Debdipta Ghosh
2016-09-07 11:13 ` Greg KH [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20160907111336.GA10600@kroah.com \
    --to=greg@kroah.com \
    --cc=kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).