From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vitaly Wool Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 10:43:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100527222514.0a1710bf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100527230806.4deb6de3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100527220949.GB10602@srcf.ucam.org> <20100527232357.6d14fdb2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100527223605.GB11364@srcf.ucam.org> <20100527235546.09f3ce8a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100528043114.GC26177@thunk.org> <20100528103713.0a7952d9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100528114123.GA22947@srcf.ucam.org> <4BFFB681.1000105@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f198.google.com ([209.85.211.198]:43777 "EHLO mail-yw0-f198.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750953Ab0E2Iny (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2010 04:43:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Swetland Cc: Igor Stoppa , "tytso@mit.edu" , Peter Zijlstra , "Balbi Felipe (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" , LKML , Florian Mickler , Linux PM , Linux OMAP Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Alan Cox On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Brian Swetland 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