Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 17:21:52 EST


Hi.

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:33, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > Yes, exactly. Someone who understand do_exit please help clean up the
> > code. I'd like to remove the idle thread, since the smpboot code will
> > create a new idle thread.
>
> I'd say fix the smpboot code so that it doesn't create new idle tasks
> except during boot.

Would that mean that CPUs that were physically hotplugged wouldn't get
idle threads?

Regards,

Nigel
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