From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754785Ab0E2JEf (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2010 05:04:35 -0400 Received: from ist.d-labs.de ([213.239.218.44]:56493 "EHLO mx01.d-labs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751288Ab0E2JEe (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2010 05:04:34 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 11:04:26 +0200 From: Florian Mickler To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Linux PM , Arve =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= , Alan Cox , Matthew Garrett , Alan Stern , Thomas Gleixner , Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org, LKML , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Message-ID: <20100529110426.077cba47@schatten.dmk.lab> In-Reply-To: <201005290011.32543.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <1275032623.32462.30.camel@laptop> <201005290011.32543.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 29 May 2010 00:11:32 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > > Having reconsidered the suspend blockers idea I came to the conclusion that > in fact it was a workaround for three different problems. But it is also a change of paradigm. The scheduler should strive to have the system idle as long as possible to conserve battery. And everything that does not serve the purpose of the device has to be considered as not worth running, except if there are other purpose-fullfilling tasks to run anyway. > > Thanks, > Rafael cheers, Flo