On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:16:52PM +0200, Linus WALLEIJ wrote: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding something basic here, but when you say frozen, > are you referring to freezer control groups > Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt? > > I was more thinking about something new, that isn't freezing anything. > The only purpose would be to group the stuff that CPUidle can ignore, > and let CPUidle ignore it, so that the system can still be idled. So they'd be on the runqeue but wouldn't factor into cpuidle's calculations of when the next wakeup should be? Ok. I think that still leaves you with the same problem - you're not scheduling that task, so how do you know to execute it when a network packet is received? I think you also still have the race condition. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
