Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.

[Tony Lindgren]

* Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> [100507 10:15]:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 19:00 -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > Oh some SoC devices like omap hit retention or off modes in the idle loop.
> > That brings down the idle consumption of a running system to minimal
> > levels. It's basically the same as suspending the device in every idle loop.
> > 
> > The system wakes up every few seconds or so, but that already provides
> > battery life of over ten days or so on an idle system. Of course the
> > wakeup latencies are in milliseconds then.
> 
> MSM doesn't have those power states unfortunately .. Your kind of
> suggesting what I was suggesting in that we should suspend in idle. Your
> hardware can do it easier tho since your have power states that are
> equal to suspend.

You might be able to implement suspend-while-idle with cpuidle and
a custom idle function on MSM. That is if MSM supports waking to
a timer event and some device interrupts. However, if it only wakes
to pressing some power button, then you will get missed timers
and the system won't behave in a normal way.

Maybe you could still kill -STOP the misbehaving apps, then keep the
idle system running until some timer expires, then when no activity,
echo mem > /sys/power/state?

Regards,

Tony
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