On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:22:05PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Yep, I noticed it offers a maximum of 6 cpus on my way.
> > As a sidenote, seems kinda funny (and wasteful maybe?), doing this
> > on a lot of hardware that isn't hotplug capable. (Whilst I could
> > disable cpu hotplug in my local build, this isn't an answer for
> > a generic distro kernel).
>
> Both suspend to disk (and suspend to ram?) implementations now depend on
> hotplug_cpu to enable extra cpus, so there is at least one reason for
> them to want hotplug support in a generic kernel.
You mean suspend -> plug in a new cpu -> resume transitions ?
That sounds *terrifying*.
Dave
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
