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

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 14:23:26 EST


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Actually, the reverse - there's no terribly good way to make PCs work
> > with scheduler-based suspend, but there's no reason why they wouldn't
> > work with the current opportunistic suspend implementation.
>
> How does that solve the problems you mentioned above ? Wakeup
> guarantees, latencies ...

Latency doesn't matter because we don't care when the next timer is due
to expire. Wakeup guarantees can be provided via the suspend blocker
implementation.

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