> Anybody who is interested in the latency of cpu hotplug is deluding > himself, also cpu hotplug is _NOT_ a power management feature, so the > rest of your justification just disappeared as well. Actually CPU hotplug is a power management feature on some devices where you need to shutdown one of the cores to enter low power modes. Remember we use it as part of the suspend paths and various processors nowdays drop into a suspend to RAM type state on CPU idling. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html