Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems. | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:00:30 +0100 |
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On Tuesday, 28 of October 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > However it does not fix the freezing of tasks which are waiting for > > > VFS locks (i.e. inode->i_mutex) held by the outstanding fuse requests. > > > This is the tricky part... > > > > Convert them all to wait_event_freezeable. > > You mean convert mutexes to event queues? Not a very good idea. > > I fear we are going down the same path as the last time. I still > don't think rewriting the VFS is the right solution to the freezing > problem. But hey, if you want, sumbit a patch or an RFD and lets see > what others think.
So, what solution would you prefer?
Rafael
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