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Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)
From: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> wrote:
> I am quite willing to state that on both MSM and OMAP based Android
> platforms, we've found that the suspend blocker model allows us to
> obtain a lower average power draw than if we don't use it -- Mike Chan
> provided some numbers earlier in another thread in the trivial device
> idle case, the win is of course much larger in the case of several
> poorly behaved apps being active.

Without the clear description of the experiments, that statement
proves just nothing other than your applications work better with your
model, but I would expect that to be so without any experiments at
all.

~Vitaly