On Mon 2006-09-04 13:03:25, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, 4 September 2006 11:08, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > sorry, i am only slowly catching up after vacation.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:09:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Change suspend_console() so that it waits for all consoles to flush the
> > > remaining messages and make it possible to switch the console suspending
> > > off with the help of a Kconfig option.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> >
> > > +#ifndef CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND
> > > /**
> > > * suspend_console - suspend the console subsystem
> > > *
> > > @@ -709,8 +710,14 @@ int __init add_preferred_console(char *n
> > > */
> > > void suspend_console(void)
> > > {
> > > + printk("Suspending console(s)\n");
> > > acquire_console_sem();
> > > console_suspended = 1;
> > > + /* This is needed so that all of the messages that have already been
> > > + * written to all consoles can be actually transmitted (eg. over a
> > > + * network) before we try to suspend the consoles' devices.
> > > + */
> > > + ssleep(2);
> >
> > Sorry, but no. Suspend and resume is already slow enough, no need to make
> > both of them much slower.
> > If we can condition this on the netconsole being used, ok, but not for the
> > most common case of "console is on plain VGA".
>
> Hm, it already is in -mm, but of course I can prepare a patch that removes
> this ssleep().
>
> Pavel, what do you think?
Well, in suspend-to-ram case, 2 seconds is quite a lot... like more
than rest of suspend, so stefan has some point...
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