Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] PM: Asynchronous suspend and resume (updated)

From: Alan Stern
Date: Wed Aug 19 2009 - 10:07:38 EST


On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> There's a problem that for safety reasons I maintain the ordering of dpm_list
> and the callbacks are scheduled for async execution in the same order in
> which they would have been executed synchronously. If were to change this,
> we'd have to be _very_ careful.

Why? The order in which jobs are scheduled for async execution doesn't
bear any particular relation to the order in which they get run.

Alan Stern

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