Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:03:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: [lhcs-devel] Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] i386 Hotplug CPU |
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Yeah i recall you mentioning this earlier, i'll look into adding the > > > necessary bits so that you have enough state to resume from. Your > > > mentioning this was one of the reasons i wanted this in. > > > > Pavel, considering that the processor is in a quiescent state when it's in > > the idle thread, can't we simply restart them all when we do the final > > sleep? So on the resume, we steer the APs straight into the offline cpu > > spin and manually bring them up again when the BSP has resumed? I > > reckon > > Sorry, I do not understand what AP and BSP means in this context.
My mistake, Application and Bootstrap Processors.
> Yes, we can just shut those cpus down on suspend and completely boot > them from real mode during resume... that should work. And we will > need to do that during suspend-to-ram.
Thanks i just wanted to run that by you first.
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