Hi On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 21:54, Vaibhav Jain <vjoss197@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I talked to a friend of mine and he suggested that > in a logical offline state the cpu is powered on and ready to execute > instructions > just that the kernel is not aware of it. But in case of physical offline > state the cpu > is powered off and cannot run. > Are you saying something similar ? Please don't do top posting :) More or less, yes....but I'll let others to better explain it. So far I never did offline/online CPU unplug, so I have no first hand experience. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
