On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, August 05, 2010, david@xxxxxxx wrote: >> >> My proposal would never freeze a subset of processes. >> >> what my proposal: >> >> only consider the activity of a subset of processes when deciding if we >> should suspend or not. If the decision is to suspend, freeze everything. > > That alone doesn't allow you to handle the race Matthew was referring to > (ie. wakeup event happening right after you've decided to suspend). > > A mechanism of making a decision alone is not sufficient, you also need a > mechanism to avoid races between wakeup events and suspend process. > I thought you just posted that there was a new feature that would be able to abort the suspend and so that race was closed. David Lang _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
