Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [PATCH 2/2] Export not_critical_when_idle feature in workqueue and use it in ondemand | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:04:18 -0700 | From | "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <> |
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Dave Jones [mailto:davej@redhat.com] >Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:58 AM >To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh >Cc: Andrew Morton; tglx@linutronix.de; linux-kernel >Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export not_critical_when_idle feature >in workqueue and use it in ondemand > >On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:09:03PM -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > > > > > > Add a new not_critical_when_idle parameter to >queue_delayed_work_on(). This > > parameter can be used to schedule work that are 'unimportant' when > > CPU is idle and can be called later, when CPU eventually >comes out of idle. > > > > Use this parameter in cpufreq ondemand governor. > > > > Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> > >just for kicks (actually because I was seeing the negative effects >of not having this diff) I threw this in the Fedora devel kernel. >Got a few people reporting softlockups during shutdown. >jpeg from one user attached.. >
Thanks for the report. I will take a look at this message. Looks like, this error is either coming from rmmod or changing the governor to default from ondemand during reboot. Does Fedora use ondemand as a module and rmmod on reboot or is it builtin?
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