On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:38:08AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:

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> If your userspace keeps polling and has runaway timers, then you
> could suspend it's parent process to idle the system?

If your userspace is suspended, how does it process the events that 
generated a system wakeup? If we had a good answer to that then suspend 
blockers would be much less necessary.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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