not sleeping for every codec read/write but doing a short udelay and
a conditional reschedule has cut suspend+resume latency by about 1
second on my T60.
The patch also fixes the unexpected codec-connection errors that
happen more often in the new power-save mode:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/8/255
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9332