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. -- 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