"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Monday 17 May 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: >> >> How about: >> >> PM: Add opportunistic suspend support. > > "PM: Opportunistic suspend support" would be sufficient IMO. > > Now, I'd start with the motivation. Like "Power management features present > in the current mainline kernel are insufficient to get maximum possible energy > savings on some platforms, such as Android, because ..." (here go explanations > why this is the case in your opinion). Yes, this will be helpful. > Next, "To allow Android and similar platforms to save more energy than they > currently can save using the mainline kernel, introduce a mechanism by which > the system is automatically suspended (i.e. put into a system-wide sleep state) > whenever it's not doing useful work, called opportunistic suspend". Hopefully, a definition of "useful" will be given here, including by what standards on-going work is determined not to be useful. Kevin _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
