Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 19:17:16 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) |
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> > So PCs with current ACPI don't get opportunistic suspend capability. It > > probably won't be supported on the Commodore Amiga either - your point ? > > Actually, the reverse - there's no terribly good way to make PCs work > with scheduler-based suspend, but there's no reason why they wouldn't > work with the current opportunistic suspend implementation.
If one works so does the other.
> In some cases, not all. It may be a latency constraint (in which case > pm_qos is an appropriate mechanism), but instead it may be something > like "A key was pressed but never read" or "A network packet was > received but not delivered". These don't fit into the pm_qos model, but > it's state that you have to track.
I never mentioned pm_qos, just latency *and* knowing what suspend states are acceptable. You need both.
Alan
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