Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] PM: Asynchronous suspend and resume (updated)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Aug 26 2009 - 09:21:19 EST


Hi!

> > * Added [2/7] adding a framework for representing PM link (idea described
> > in the patch message).
> >
> > * [3/7] is the async resume patch (idea described in the patch message).
> >
> > * [4/7] is the async suspend patch.
> >
> > * [5/7] - [7/7] set async_suspend for devices in a few selected subsystems.
> >
> > The patches have been tested on HP nx6325.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
>
> I'm not sure about the design of these things. How much do we care
> about wasting memory? Your scheme allocates six pointers for every
> dependency, plus four pointers for every device. It's possible to
> reduce this considerably, especially if the parent-child dependencies
> aren't stored explicitly.

I'd say that this level of memory waste is perfectly acceptable...

Pavel


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