Re: [PATCH V5 2/2] tracing, perf : add cpu hotplug trace events

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 15:40 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 15:24 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > > Most SMP ARM processors are going to use it soon.  Powering down idle 
> > > cores provides substantial power saving.
> > 
> > And why can't regular idle paths be used? CPU hotplug is a massively
> > expensive operation.
> 
> The idle path assumes that the CPU state is preserved. 

Not much of it,

>  We're talking 
> about cores completely going down with power pulled beneath them and 
> eventually rebooted dynamically here.

I think you can get away with actually pulling the power and re-initing
the cpu to idle from the idle path and the rest of the kernel not
caring.

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