Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.

Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-26T17:00:34Z

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:54 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Given that I'm in the latter category, I think suspend blockers is a
> reasonable solution to an existing problem. I like Alan's idea of
> restricting the API into a single user space program so we contain the
> API contamination ... but realistically that's mostly the current
> suspend blockers anyway.

There's a _large_ difference between resource limits and these wonky
suspend blockers.

The main and most important one being that suspend is a global property
and can/will hurt sensible tasks. It puts the whole task model upside
down.