Re: 2.6.2-rc1 / ACPI sleep / irqbalance / kirqd / pentium 4 HT problems on Uniwill N258SA0

[Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>]

Pavel Machek wrote:
 >>Anyway, sleep/suspend/standby functionality (important to most laptop
 >>users, need to close the lid and go): This checkin to
 >>kernel/power/main.c seems to disable suspend with SMP (!?):
 >>
 >>--- 1.3/kernel/power/main.c	Sat Jan 24 20:44:47 2004
 >>+++ 1.4/kernel/power/main.c	Sat Jan 24 20:44:47 2004
 >>@@ -172,6 +172,12 @@
 >> 	if (down_trylock(&pm_sem))
 >> 		return -EBUSY;
 >>
 >>+	/* Suspend is hard to get right on SMP. */
 >>+	if (num_online_cpus() != 1) {
 >>+		error = -EPERM;
 >>+		goto Unlock;
 >>+	}
 >>+
 >> 	if ((error = suspend_prepare(state)))
 >> 		goto Unlock;
 >>
 >>... which, given the prevalence of hyperthreaded CPUs on laptops, is
 >>fighting a trend. I backed out the above with a #if 0 then tried echo -n
 >>1>/proc/acpi/sleep again. This time I got:
 >
 >
 > Well, no sleep developers have SMP or HT machines, AFAICT.
 >
 > If you back that out... well you are on your own.

Just a random thought: if I understand it correctly, CPU hotplugging is 
intended to be able to take CPUs online and offline one by one, am I 
right? Well, when that infrastructure's ready, this can probably be made 
to work for SMP by taking all the other CPUs offline first. They're all 
going to go offline because of the suspend anyway, so it shouldn't make 
much difference. :)

-- Bart