On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:03:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:29:49AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > I believe that there still are some cases. But why would offline > > CPUs seem so iffy? CPUs coming up execute code before they are fully > > operational, and during that time, much of the kernel views them as > > being offline. Yet they do have to execute significant code in order > > to get themselves set up. > > I'm thinking we do far too much during bringup and tear-down as it is. > But yes maybe.
Boot, suspend, and hibernation indeed would be faster if we did less, but we still will have to do something. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/