Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] block: add queue idle timer

[Lin Ming]

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 10:39 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012, Lin Ming wrote:
> 
> > Add an idle timer that is set to some suitable timeout and would be
> > added when the queue first goes empty. If nothing has happened during
> > the timeout interval, then the queue is suspended.
> 
> You don't need to create an idle timer for runtime PM support; the 
> runtime PM framework already has such a timer.  Read 
> Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, especially the parts describing 
> pm_runtime_autosuspend() and related functions.

OK, will use pm_runtime_autosuspend.

> 
> Alan Stern
> 


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