Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-17T14:46:30Z

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:20:01 -0800
Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> wrote:

> Of course that still doesn't address userspace. Aggressively going to
> suspend lets us compensate for userspace programs that do somewhat
> silly things (I agree that it would be best if they didn't but they
> do and getting *everyone* to write their userspace code to avoid
> spinning or avoid waking up on short-duration timers to poll is a
> losing battle).

actually with powertop... on the open source side things are actually
won. It took all of 6 months...
I don't see that as a valid excuse. In fact, if this kind of solution
makes real userspace scheduled timers to be missed then I consider it a
serious functionality misfeature.

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