From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:41:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20100527174140.GB3187@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100527161943.GA32764@srcf.ucam.org> <20100527170740.GA1980@srcf.ucam.org> <1274980391.27810.5552.camel@twins> <20100527171644.GA2468@srcf.ucam.org> <1274980856.27810.5582.camel@twins> <20100527172510.GC2468@srcf.ucam.org> <1274981288.27810.5609.camel@twins> <20100527173218.GF2468@srcf.ucam.org> <1274981750.27810.5641.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1274981750.27810.5641.camel@twins> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Alan Cox , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Florian Mickler , Vitaly Wool , LKML , Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org, felipe.balbi@nokia.com, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:35:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:32 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:28:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Why would you care about the screen for a network event? > > > > Because the application that needs to handle the network packet is > > currently blocked trying to draw something to the screen. > > Then that's an application bug right there, isn't it? > > If should have listened to the window server telling its clients it was > going to go away. Drawing after you get that is your own damn fault ;-) How long do you wait for applications to respond that they've stopped drawing? What if the application is heavily in swap at the time? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org