Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.

James Bottomley
2010-05-26T17:14:16Z

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 19:00 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:54 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > Given that I'm in the latter category, I think suspend blockers is a
> > reasonable solution to an existing problem. I like Alan's idea of
> > restricting the API into a single user space program so we contain the
> > API contamination ... but realistically that's mostly the current
> > suspend blockers anyway.
>
> There's a _large_ difference between resource limits and these wonky
> suspend blockers.

Well, you have policy and then you have implementation ... suspend
blockers just looks like an implementation to me. It seems to be
reasonably well suited in that regard ... after all, we kill processes
that exhaust memory for instance or cut off write privileges to those
that go over quota. Preventing power hungry processes from consuming
power by not allowing them to run until there's a wakeup event is fairly
gentle by those standards.

> The main and most important one being that suspend is a global property
> and can/will hurt sensible tasks. It puts the whole task model upside
> down.

OK, so I believe you have an android phone ... it already implements
this model ... specifically what are the problems on that platform this
causes?

James