Re: [linux-pm] [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jim Gettys wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: What you say sounds good, assuming that the cost of a sleep is less than the cost of the busy wait. But this may be hardware, the waits may be very small and frequent, and if it's hitting a small hardware window like

Re: [linux-pm] [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-19 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > What you say sounds good, assuming that the cost of a sleep is less than > the cost of the busy wait. But this may be hardware, the waits may be > very small and frequent, and if it's hitting a small hardware window > like retrace, de

Re: [linux-pm] [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jim Gettys wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 17:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some day we may have modesetting support in the kernel for some graphics hw, right now it's pretty damn spotty. Yep, that's the way to go. hey, i wildly supported this approach e

Re: [linux-pm] [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-18 Thread Jim Gettys
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 17:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Some day we may have modesetting support in the kernel for some > > > graphics hw, right now it's pretty damn spotty. > > > > Yep, that's the way to go. > > hey, i wildly supported this app