Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread

Florian Mickler
2010-08-02T05:34:00Z

Hi,

On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:05:48 -0700
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> I'm a little worried that this whole "I need to block suspend" is
> temporary. Yes today there is silicon from ARM and Intel where suspend
> is a heavy operation, yet at the same time it's not all THAT heavy
> anymore.... at least on the Intel side it's good enough to use pretty
> much all the time (when the screen is off for now, but that's a memory
> controller issue more than anything else). I'm pretty sure the ARM guys
> will not be far behind.

I think that the only thing that really matters (longterm) with suspend
is that processes don't get scheduled anymore when the system is
suspended.

Cheers,
Flo