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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 06:30:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Opportunistic suspend is just a deep idle state, nothing else.
> > 
> > No. The useful property of opportunistic suspend is that nothing gets 
> > scheduled. That's fundamentally different to a deep idle state.
> 
> Nothing gets scheduled in a deep idle state either - its idle. We leave
> the idle state to schedule anything.

Certainly, if you can force the system to be idle then you don't need 
opportunistic suspend. But you haven't shown how to do that without it 
being racey.

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