Suspend Power Cheat

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Fri Feb 15 14:53:18 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Andy Green wrote:
>> In the end, it is pure software...
> 
> Sure. What I mean is that it may be tricky to verify that this cheat
> works in all cases, and it may introduce surprises, like things
> going wrong in only a small number of cases. So it would add noise
> to the bug reporting process. (Maybe a bit similar to the huge number
> of random failures all over the place we got due to the VB_SYS issue.
> Well, let's hope it won't be quite so bad.)

Well it wouldn't be so bad as that one, at least they will all have
"resume" in common.  Let's look at the results (this bad failure mode we
now discuss did not show any sign of existing yet :-) ) and see how we
feel... the potential 35% overall cold suspend time improvement is too
sexy to ignore I think.

- -Andy
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