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Message-ID: <20100805134741.GC20565@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:47:41 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: david@...g.hm
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
pavel@....cz, florian@...kler.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
swetland@...gle.com, peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:19:20PM -0700, david@...g.hm wrote:
> only consider the activity of a subset of processes when deciding if we
> should suspend or not. If the decision is to suspend, freeze everything.
>
> you (and many other people) are confusing what I've proposed (use cgroups
> to indicate what processes to care about and what ones to not care about
> when deciding to suspend/go to idle) with the prior cgroup proposal (use
> cgroups to freeze a subset of tasks while leaving others runnable)
The decision on whether or not to go to sleep isn't the difficult bit of
this problem space.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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