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

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Message-Id: <201005292212.36107.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Sat, 29 May 2010 22:12:36 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>, felipe.balbi@...ia.com,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

On Saturday 29 May 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:44 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Consider updatedb or another file indexing ... thing on a laptop.  I certainly
> > don't want anything like this to run and drain my battery, even if it has
> > already been started when the machine was on AC power.  Now, of course,
> > I can kill it, but for that I need to notice that it's running and it presumably
> > might have done some job already and it would be wasteful to lose it.
> > It would be quite nice if that app was not regarded as runnable when the
> > system was on battery power. 
> 
> How will a ionice on steriods that will defer servicing IO when the IO
> system QoS limit doesn't meet the updatedb process's level is too low,
> not solve this?
> 
> In that case the updatedb process will simply block on IO, will hence
> not be runnable and thus not drain your battery.

It will only work for apps that use I/O, but there may be purely CPU-bound
ones that need that kind of approach too.
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