Re: [linux-pm] Power management minisummit at Linux Plumbers Conference (November 3-5)

[Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 03:30:56PM -0500, Mike Turquette wrote:

> That link did not really work for me, but I think I found the right  
> place after a few clicks.

Oops! The link should have been 
http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/events/LPC2010MC/proposals .

> Just FYI, I proposed a discussion on the issues that create such a large  
> power gap between a CPUIdle-only system and a system with suspend (with  
> the assumption that the lowest C-state can be hit by both).
>
> I don't really want to present a formal lecture on it, but it would be  
> nice to discuss with the group what can be done to shrink that gap a  
> little in kernel space (badly behaving timers in platform-independent  
> code) and in userspace (power-aware timers, coalescing timers, etc).

That sounds great. The idea is to be fairly discussion-oriented, perhaps 
with a short presentation to cover the outline of the issue, so this 
kind of topic is ideal.

Thanks,
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org