Re: [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Proposal for optimistic suspend idea.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 26 2011 - 16:17:48 EST


On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:13 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>
> For now, I'd just be interested in what folks think about the concept with
> regards to the wakelock discussions. Where it might not be sufficient? Or
> what other disadvantages might it have? Are there any varients to this
> idea that would be better?

I would like to know why people still think wakelocks are remotely sane?

>From where I'm sitting they're utter crap.. _WHY_ do you need to suspend
anything? What's wrong with regular idle?

So no, you've got a massive major NAK for anything touching the
scheduler for this utter braindamage.
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