Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-27T18:02:43Z

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:54 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:52:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > How so, event happens on hardware level, IRQ gets raised, CPU wakes up,
> > handler gets run, handler generates a task wakeup, runqueue isn't empty,
> > we run stuff.
>
> If you're using idle-based suspend without any forced idling or blocking
> of applications then you don't lose wakeups. People keep conflating
> separate issues.

I still don't see how blocking applications will cause missed wakeups in
anything but a buggy application at worst, and even those will
eventually get the event when they unblock.

What seems to be the confusion?