[PATCH 0/6] CPUoffline framework

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:38:13PM -0700, Mike Turquette wrote:
> This series is posted for posterity.  It has been NAK'd by the community
> since CPU hotplug has been deemed an inappropriate mechanism for power
> capping.

I spoke with Amit about this last week. What's the plan going forward on
really saving power when a CPU isn't being used -- just ensuring the
lowest possible idle state is really off?

And are there situations where the hardware requires something like
hotplug to actually maximize savings?
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