"Andika Triwidada" <[email protected]> writes:
[cc linux-acpi]
> Question: is that normal? I thought power consumption will be
> automatically reduced if one core offlined.
The current cpu offline essentially just runs a special idle loop.
The standard idle loop is even a bit more aggressive on some systems
because it knows about the deeper ACPI sleep modi.
There are also dependencies between cores because current CPUs
have shared power planes between cores.
I suppose in the future when a whole socket goes off line one could
implement special code to turn off the CPU further. But it likely
won't work on older hardware.
-Andi
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