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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0908041330040.3102-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:33:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-pm <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
"dtor@...l.ru" <dtor@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] introduce device async actions mechanism
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Not only that. I'd like to simplify the design, because IMO using one async
> domain would be much more straightforward than using multiple ones.
> If I understand the async framework correctly, the domains are only used for
> synchronization, ie. if you want to wait for a group of async operations to
> complete, you can put them all into one domain and then call
> async_synchronize_full_domain() to wait for them all together.
>
> You don't need multiple domains to run multiple things in parallel.
There's a basic confusion going on here.
Rui is using "async domain" to mean a collection of devices which
will be suspended or resumed serially. Different domains run in
parallel.
Rafael is using "async domain" to mean a collection of devices which
will be suspended or resumed in parallel. Different domains run
serially.
Once that is cleared up, you should be able to communicate a little
better... :-)
Alan Stern
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