Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 7) | From | Kevin Hilman <> | Date | Mon, 17 May 2010 15:16:52 -0700 |
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"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> writes:
> On Monday 17 May 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>> >> How about: >> >> PM: Add opportunistic suspend support. > > "PM: Opportunistic suspend support" would be sufficient IMO. > > Now, I'd start with the motivation. Like "Power management features present > in the current mainline kernel are insufficient to get maximum possible energy > savings on some platforms, such as Android, because ..." (here go explanations > why this is the case in your opinion).
Yes, this will be helpful.
> Next, "To allow Android and similar platforms to save more energy than they > currently can save using the mainline kernel, introduce a mechanism by which > the system is automatically suspended (i.e. put into a system-wide sleep state) > whenever it's not doing useful work, called opportunistic suspend".
Hopefully, a definition of "useful" will be given here, including by what standards on-going work is determined not to be useful.
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