linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait or nmi

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Message-ID: <1338919647.2749.30.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:07:27 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	Arjan Dan De Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	x86 <x86@...nel.org>, linux-pm <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait or
 nmi

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 17:44 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> The scheduler may assign a process to run on it, which will wake it up
> to use power.

But given that you care about how fast a cpu can come up again, this
seems to be exactly what you want. You want to adapt to load fast, so
why bother going through userspace and wrecking bits in between?
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