Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2012 10:39:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] block: add queue idle timer |
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On Tue, 15 May 2012, Lin Ming wrote:
> Add an idle timer that is set to some suitable timeout and would be > added when the queue first goes empty. If nothing has happened during > the timeout interval, then the queue is suspended.
You don't need to create an idle timer for runtime PM support; the runtime PM framework already has such a timer. Read Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, especially the parts describing pm_runtime_autosuspend() and related functions.
Alan Stern
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