Difference between logical and physical cpu hotplug

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 21:54, Vaibhav Jain <vjoss197 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I talked to a friend of mine and he suggested that
> in a logical offline state the cpu is powered on and ready to execute
> instructions
> just that the kernel is not aware of it. But in case of physical offline
> state the cpu
> is powered off and cannot run.
> Are you saying something similar ?


Please don't do top posting :)

More or less, yes....but I'll let others to better explain it. So far
I never did offline/online CPU unplug, so I have no first hand
experience.

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