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

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimKI1G9qEKwpMOFvoWa5Qa__GcXGooE2_ZfmEHx@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 29 May 2010 10:43:53 +0200
From:	Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@...il.com>
To:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
Cc:	Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...ia.com>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Balbi Felipe (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <felipe.balbi@...ia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com> wrote:
> I am quite willing to state that on both MSM and OMAP based Android
> platforms, we've found that the suspend blocker model allows us to
> obtain a lower average power draw than if we don't use it -- Mike Chan
> provided some numbers earlier in another thread in the trivial device
> idle case, the win is of course much larger in the case of several
> poorly behaved apps being active.

Without the clear description of the experiments, that statement
proves just nothing other than your applications work better with your
model, but I would expect that to be so without any experiments at
all.

~Vitaly
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