On Thu 2010-05-13 21:08:14, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 01:00:04PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > The system stays running because there's something to do. The system > > won't suspend until all the processors hit the kernel idle loop and > > the next_timer_interrupt_critical() returns nothing. > > At which point an application in a busy loop cripples you. I think we Application running busy loop already cripples you, with power going from 15W to 50W in thinkpad case. Just avoid badly written apps. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
