Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Problem with freezable workqueues | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:08:56 +0100 |
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On Wednesday, 28 February 2007 01:01, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:57 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Okay, in that case I'd suggest removing create_freezeable_workqueue() and > > make all workqueues nonfreezable once again for 2.6.21 (as far as I know, only > > the two XFS workqueues are affected). > > I think Nigel might object but I forgot what specific trouble XFS was > causing him.
We suspected that the XFS' worker threads might commit I/O after freeze_processes() has returned, but that hasn't been supported by evidence, as far as I can recall.
Also, making them freezable was controversial ...
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