From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934989Ab0E0STY (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 14:19:24 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:42939 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933992Ab0E0STW (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 14:19:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 19:18:58 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Alan Cox , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Florian Mickler , Vitaly Wool , LKML , Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org, felipe.balbi@nokia.com, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Message-ID: <20100527181858.GK3543@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100527170740.GA1980@srcf.ucam.org> <1274980391.27810.5552.camel@twins> <20100527171644.GA2468@srcf.ucam.org> <1274980856.27810.5582.camel@twins> <20100527172510.GC2468@srcf.ucam.org> <1274981288.27810.5609.camel@twins> <20100527173218.GF2468@srcf.ucam.org> <1274981750.27810.5641.camel@twins> <20100527174140.GB3187@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:12:15PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > How long do you wait for applications to respond that they've stopped > > drawing? What if the application is heavily in swap at the time? > > Very realistic scenario on a mobile phone. If the aim is to produce a solution that isn't special-cased to specific devices, thinking about how long an application may take to respond is entirely relevant. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org