From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: for_each_online_cpu broken ?
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:28:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051208062844.GF28201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1134022925.7235.28.camel@localhost>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:22:05PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Yep, I noticed it offers a maximum of 6 cpus on my way.
> > As a sidenote, seems kinda funny (and wasteful maybe?), doing this
> > on a lot of hardware that isn't hotplug capable. (Whilst I could
> > disable cpu hotplug in my local build, this isn't an answer for
> > a generic distro kernel).
>
> Both suspend to disk (and suspend to ram?) implementations now depend on
> hotplug_cpu to enable extra cpus, so there is at least one reason for
> them to want hotplug support in a generic kernel.
You mean suspend -> plug in a new cpu -> resume transitions ?
That sounds *terrifying*.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-08 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-08 5:07 for_each_online_cpu broken ? Dave Jones
2005-12-08 5:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-08 5:33 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-08 5:38 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-08 6:12 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-08 6:27 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-08 6:22 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-08 6:28 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-12-08 6:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-09 0:03 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-12-08 6:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-08 6:43 ` Dave Jones
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