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

[Arve Hjønnevåg]

2010/5/26 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:06 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>
>> I was not talking about our user-space code. Suspend has to be called
>> by a running thread, so at least one runqueue is not empty.
>
> But why would you need to suspend if the machine is fully idle?
>

I have never seen a system that is fully idle for hours or even minutes.

> Is it because you're using broken hardware that has lower power
> consumption in suspend state as in idle?
>

Initially, yes, but for shipping android phones, no.

> Couldn't you make the runtime-pm smarter and utilize the suspend states?
>

I don't think runtime-pm is relevant here. We don't use suspend to
power down devices that are not in use, we use suspend to enter system
power states that we cannot enter from idle, and on systems where the
same power state can be used from idle and suspend, we use suspend so
we can stay in the low power state for minutes to hours instead of
milliseconds to seconds.

-- 
Arve Hjønnevåg
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