[PATCH] cpuidle/powernv : init all present cpus for deep states

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Thu May 17 01:22:22 AEST 2018


Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Init all present cpus for deep states instead of "all possible" cpus.
> Init fails if the possible cpu is gaurded. Resulting in making only
> non-deep states available for cpuidle/hotplug.

Should this also head to stable? It means that for single threaded
workloads, if you guard out a CPU core you'll not get WoF, which means
that performance goes down when you wouldn't expect it to. Right?

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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