Re: [PATCH 8/8] intel_idle: create a native cpuidle driver for select intel processors

[Andi Kleen]

Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> ... What happens when an additional CPU is brought online? 
>> It melts?  ;)
>
> With the current driver, processors hot-added after modprobe
> will use C1 only, and not use deeper C-states.

I agree with Andrew that it will likely not be a lot of 
effort to restructure the driver to handle cpu hotplug
properly, and it's better done from the beginning.

-Andi

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