Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM / sleep: New flag to speed up suspend-resume of suspended devices

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > If the child knows about the problem beforehand, it can runtime-resume 
> > the parent during its ->suspend.
> 
> Well, it even should do that in those cases.  We may need to deal with children
> that don't do that, though.
> 
> > > Well, if power.fast_suspend set guarantees that ->suspend_late, ->suspend_noirq,
> > > ->resume_noirq, and ->resume_early will be skipped for a device, then we may
> > > restrict setting it for devices whose children have it set (or that have no
> > > children).  Initially, that will be equivalent to setting it for leaf devices
> > > only, but it might be extended over time in a natural way.
> > 
> > Initially, maybe.
> 
> Of course initially.
> 
> > But it's the wrong approach in general.
> 
> In the long run - I agree.
> 
> > The right approach is to restrict setting fast_suspend for devices whose
> > children don't mind their parent being suspended when their resume callbacks 
> > run -- not for devices whose children also have fast_suspend set.
> 
> I agree, but we need to know which children are OK with the parent being
> suspended.  Having fast_suspend set is a good indication of that. :-)
> 
> Of course, we may introduce a separate flag for that just fine if you prefer.
> 
> > That's the point I've been trying to express all along.
> 
> I see.

Okay.  I'll wait to see the next version.

Alan Stern

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