[SHR] Suspend / Resume speed

[Florian Hackenberger]

On Monday 23 February 2009 12:08:10 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Montag, den 23.02.2009, 09:32 +0100 schrieb Florian Hackenberger:
> > I noticed that suspending / resuming on 2008.12 is quite fast compared
> > to SHR. The difference which is most noticeable is that SHR switches to
> > a virtual terminal before and right after suspending, as opposed to
> > 2008.12 which resumes right into X.
> Chances are they just cover up by turning backlight off prior to doing
> real suspend and then wait until resume has happened before turning it
> on again. We're not doing this yet, since we had our share with
> suspend/resume problems in the past and only will do that once it proves
> 100% solid.

I don't think that they simply disable the backlight. Resuming from SHR 
unstable takes about 5-6 seconds (no incoming call), while 2008.12 resumes 
under 3 seconds. While this is not a scientific measurement, 2008.12 surely 
is a lot faster. Any other ideas what they do differently?

> > Is there a way to replicate this
> > behaviour on SHR? I suspect that we could save at least a second of
> > resume time, because printing and scrolling a few hundred lines of
> > kernel log in addition to the mode switches takes a bit of time.
> IIRC Garmin had a patch in their Navi sources that removes switching the
> VT on suspend/resume, which gave a) a better user experience and b) a
> small speedup. We should pick that up IMO.

It should be easier to copy from 2008.12 shouldn't it?

Cheers,
	Florian