Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 20:18:33 +0300 | From | Felipe Balbi <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) |
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Hi,
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:04:38PM +0200, ext Thomas Gleixner wrote: >Opportunistic suspend is just a deep idle state, nothing else. If the >overall QoS requirements allow to enter that deep idle state then the >kernel goes there. Same decision as for all other idle states. You >don't need any user space blocker for this decision, just sensible QoS >information.
agree completely with you. Adding virtual differences between power states is a bad idea and causes unnecessary complication to the system. If we have a generic way of describing desired latencies (irq, wakeup, throughput, whatever), then the kernel should decide what's the best power state for the current situation.
-- balbi
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