Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

From: Arve Hjønnevåg
Date: Wed May 26 2010 - 05:41:30 EST


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 01:38 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> > This of course will lead to a scattering of suspend blockers into any
>> > drivers/subsystems considered "useful", which by looking through current
>> > Android kernels is many of them.
>>
>> That depends on the maintainers of these subsystems, who still have the power
>> to reject requested changes.
>
> So as a scheduler maintainer I'm going to merge a patch that does a
> suspend_blocker when the runqueue's aren't empty... how about that?
>

I don't know if you are serious, since the all the runqueues are never
empty while suspending, this would disable opportunistic suspend
altogether.

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Arve Hjønnevåg
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