Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

[David Lang]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > (And for me personally, I'd love to have all my machines "sleep" by 
> > default, but wake up by eithernet and keyboard - I'd love for my screen 
> > saver to literally put the machine to sleep, but not have to worry about 
> > touching a keyboard - just ssh'ing into them should still wake up. It's 
> > *technically* doable, but it's just a pain to do right now)
> And timer somehow so cron jobs could still run. Ideal for critical but rarely 
> used machines like fallover servers, the user documentation download site, or 
> similar.

with dynaticks now in the kernel it may even be possible to have the idle 
process decide that the next event is far enough away that it should 
suspend-to-ram until that point.

David Lang
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