linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 03:06:20 -0700
From:	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>,
	felipe.balbi@...ia.com,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

2010/5/26 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 02:41 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 01:38 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> >> > This of course will lead to a scattering of suspend blockers into any
>> >> > drivers/subsystems considered "useful", which by looking through current
>> >> > Android kernels is many of them.
>> >>
>> >> That depends on the maintainers of these subsystems, who still have the power
>> >> to reject requested changes.
>> >
>> > So as a scheduler maintainer I'm going to merge a patch that does a
>> > suspend_blocker when the runqueue's aren't empty... how about that?
>> >
>>
>> I don't know if you are serious, since the all the runqueues are never
>> empty while suspending, this would disable opportunistic suspend
>> altogether.
>
> So why again was this such a great scheme? Go fix your userspace to not
> not run when not needed.
>

I was not talking about our user-space code. Suspend has to be called
by a running thread, so at least one runqueue is not empty.

-- 
Arve Hjønnevåg
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