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?