Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems. | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:04:02 +1100 |
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Hi.
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 00:48 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:11 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > The current design of the freezer is rather simplistic and I'm not really sure > > > it's the best one possible. Perhaps we can redesign the freezer to work > > > differently and handle the cases like fuse. > > > > Why redo what I've already done? In the full patch, you have the basis > > of what you're talking about. I haven't seen a failure to freeze fuse or > > anything else in a year of use. > > Well yeah, your patch handles the straightforward cases. But it > doesn't help with the more tricky cases, where one fuse filesystem is > using another, and as those may become more widespread, this approach > will fail.
At the moment, yes. But it's not impossible for us to modify the patch to handle that as well.
Regards,
Nigel
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