Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems. | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:51:59 +0100 |
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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.
Miklos
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