[linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems.
Rafael J. Wysocki
rjw at sisk.pl
Wed Oct 29 15:07:26 PDT 2008
On Wednesday, 29 of October 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:11 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > The current design of the freezer is rather simplistic and I'm not really sure
> > it's the best one possible. Perhaps we can redesign the freezer to work
> > differently and handle the cases like fuse.
>
> Why redo what I've already done? In the full patch, you have the basis
> of what you're talking about. I haven't seen a failure to freeze fuse or
> anything else in a year of use.
Still, Miklos noticed some problems with it.
I'm not talking about doing things on top of the current signal-based
freezing mechanism, but rather about moving the freezer a bit closer towards
the scheduler. Maybe this is the way to go. I don't know.
In any case, the freezing of user space seems to be much simpler than modifying
all drivers to add suspend synchronization.
Thanks,
Rafael
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