Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755979Ab0FBJK4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:10:56 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:40928 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751799Ab0FBJKz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:10:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) From: Peter Zijlstra To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Arve =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Florian Mickler , Matthew Garrett , Alan Stern , Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org, LKML , felipe.balbi@nokia.com, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM , Alan Cox In-Reply-To: References: <201005302202.39511.rjw@sisk.pl> <201005312347.24251.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:10:51 +0200 Message-ID: <1275469851.27810.30775.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 10:29 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > If I understood you correctly then you can shutdown the CPU in idle > completelty already, but that's not enough due to: > > 1) crappy applications keeping the cpu away from idle > 2) timers firing > > Would solving those two issues be sufficient for you or am I missing > something ? Aren't the container snapshot/resume people fighting the same set of problems here? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/