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SubjectRe: [PATCH] bcache: bch_writeback_thread() is not freezable
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
>
> bch_writeback_thread() is calling try_to_freeze(), but that's just an
> expensive no-op given the fact that the thread is not marked freezable.
>
> I/O helper kthreads, exactly such as the bcache writeback thread, actually
> shouldn't be freezable, because they are potentially necessary for
> finalizing the image write-out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Let's send a friendly ping on these three patches after two weeks...

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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