Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> >Maybe my usage of terminology has some problem. But, 
> >the "device
> >hibernate" here means put device into quiescent state 
> >and save the
> >device state, but do not put device into low power 
> >state.
> 
> is there really enough savings (in time or otherwise) to 
> make it worth splitting this into two steps? for 

Yep.

> but I suspect that the number of drivers where this is 
> worth doing is relativly small, and it may be a better 
> approach to start off with just putting everything into 
> the low-power state until some drive shows up that makes 
> it worth adding the intermediate state to the system 

We have had this flamewar before, and linus decided 'snapshot' and
'suspend' are different operations - and he's right. Disk takes 10
seconds to suspend/resume (spindown).
							Pavel
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