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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	amit.kucheria@linaro.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 2/2] tracing, perf : add cpu hotplug trace events
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:04:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110224210431.7a6bba68@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102242148400.2701@localhost6.localdomain6>

> That's the equivalent of physical hotplug, but we still have all the
> memory state around, so it is possible from idle, when we have the

All sorts of other state goes walking as well though - on die device
state for example like the GPU context may well also evaporate or
disappear except for the minimum needed for scanout.

It's not just about the CPU its a system (albeit a SoC in most cases)
going to sleep lock stock and barrel except for IRQ notifications, and in
some cases things like offloaded audio playback.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24 17:33 Vincent Guittot
2011-02-24 18:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-28 13:36   ` Vincent Guittot
2011-03-02 10:08     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-02 19:02       ` Vincent Guittot
2011-03-02 21:12         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-24 18:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-24 20:11   ` Alan Cox
2011-02-24 20:16     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-24 20:24       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-24 20:30         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-24 20:40           ` Alan Cox
2011-02-24 20:40           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-24 20:49             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-24 20:49             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-24 21:04               ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-02-24 21:12                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-24 21:17                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-24 21:33                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-24 20:47           ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-24 20:58             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-24 21:03               ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-24 21:11               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-02-24 20:27     ` Peter Zijlstra

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