Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread

david
2010-08-05T14:07:06Z

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:19:20PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>> only consider the activity of a subset of processes when deciding if we
>> should suspend or not. If the decision is to suspend, freeze everything.
>>
>> you (and many other people) are confusing what I've proposed (use cgroups
>> to indicate what processes to care about and what ones to not care about
>> when deciding to suspend/go to idle) with the prior cgroup proposal (use
>> cgroups to freeze a subset of tasks while leaving others runnable)
>
> The decision on whether or not to go to sleep isn't the difficult bit of
> this problem space.

but isn't that all that wakelocks do? affect the decision on whether or
not to go to sleep.

David Lang