Andrew, Per reasoning from Thomas below, please drop this one. thanks, -Len On 01/17/2012 05:56 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:48:20 AM akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: intel_idle: disable auto_demotion for hotplugged CPUs > > This one should not be necessary anymore with my intel_idle > patch series I have to rebase and resend (will do that after lunch). > > It provides a per cpu intel_idle init function which is called > from processor.ko in physical cpu hotplug case. > > From what I can see this patch does not change anything/much, because: > - CPUs onlined at bootup are initialized correctly already > - Soft offlining/onlining shouldn't matter in auto_demotion_disable > case as it's a HW MSR write and the CPU should still be in the > same state after off- and onlined again. > - Physically hotplugged/added CPUs are not registered with cpuidle > at all (this is what my patch series fixes), because intel_idle > does not offer any per cpu init() entry function. > With this patch they might be set into auto_demotion_disable now, > but no idle driver gets active for them. > > I'll pick up patch 1/3 and 3/3, base my patches on top and resend > everything, that should be easiest for everybody? > > Thomas > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
