[RFC PATCH 0/4] Container Freezer: Reuse Suspend Freezer

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Fri Apr 11 04:49:22 PDT 2008


Hi!

> NOTE: Due to problems with my MTA configuration two earlier attempts reached linux-pm
> but not linux-kernel. Please cc linux-pm at lists.linux-foundation.org on replies.
> 
> This patchset is a prototype using the container infrastructure and
> the swsusp freezer to freeze a group of tasks. I've merely taken Cedric's
> patches, forward-ported them to 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 and done a small amount of
> testing.

Okay, freezer probably does what you want, but be warned that Linus is
not exactly in love with freezer. You probably can get away with using
it for user processes, but maybe you should drop him the line saying
you want to expand freezer usage and see what happens.
									Pavel
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