Re: [PATCH 0/8] device async action mechanism

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

I notice you are still ccing my @suse.cz address. That one no longer
works :-(. 

> this is the patch set I made to speed up the device
> suspend/resume/shutdown process.
> 
> A new mechanism called Device Async Actions is introduced in this patch set.
> The basic idea is that,
> 1. device declares to support certain kinds of device async action,
>    like suspend, resume, shutdown, etc.
> 2. a async domain is create for this device
> 3. the child device inherits the async domain
> 4. devices in the same domain suspend/resume/shutdown asynchronously with
>    the other devices.
> 
> Currently, in order to make sure that it won't bring any side effects,
> I only convert the ACPI battery and i8042 to use this framework, which reduces
> 0.5s+ S3 time(suspend time plus resume time)???, from 7.0s to less than 6.5s.
> and about 0.5s shutdown time in my test.

Hmm, 7seconds is still quite long. What hw is that?

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