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

Pavel Machek
2010-05-26T17:43:10Z

Hi!

> > > > 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?
> >
> > I do not have one, nor have I ever written an application for it (nor
> > will I likely ever do that, since I detest Java), but I would expect an
> > application to run when its runnable.
>
> OK, so I've got one ... tell me what I should see and I'll try to
> reproduce.

Umm... try to boot ordinary distro and see how it copes with
opportunistic suspend?

I do have android here, and of course it work well with custom
userland. Question is: can common distro be reasonably modified to
work with suspend blockers, in a way that's backward compatible?
Pavel
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