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Hi, On Wednesday 16 August 2006 05:53, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:41:40AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:37:28PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > cpufreq-applet crashes as soon as the cpu goes offline. > > > Now, the applet should be written to deal with this scenario more > > > gracefully, but I'm questioning whether or not userspace should > > > *see* the unplug/replug that suspend does at all. > > > > As Nigel mentioned, cpu unplug happens just before processes are frozen, > > so I guess there's a chance for it to be scheduled. On the other hand, > > it's not unreasonable for CPUs to be unplugged during runtime anyway - > > perhaps userspace should be able to deal with that? > > Sure, I'm not debating that point. It's a bug in the applet that needs fixing, > but it also seems that we could be saving a whole lot of pain by > hiding this from userspace at suspend/resume time. Yes, that's the plan, but for now the freezer is not SMP-friendly, so to speak, and we have some work to do to make it possible. Greetings, Rafael -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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