On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 03:05:42PM +0000, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: > This system power state - suspend to idle is going to freeze threads. > But we're talking a multi threaded kernel. Can't there be a timing problem > going > on then too? With a disk flush being active in one task and the other task > trying > to put the disk into the deepest power state. If you don't freeze the queues > how > can you guarantee that didn't happen?
But if an active data flush task is running, then we're not idle and shouldn't go to low power.