Re: Software suspend testing in 2.6.0-test1

From: Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 13:02:58 EST


> I wanted to avoid that: we do want user threads refrigerated at that
> point so that we know noone is allocating memory as we are trying to
> do memory shrink. I'd like to avoid having refrigerator run in two
> phases....

But we should be the only process running, and we can guarantee that by
not sleeping and doing preempt_disable() when we begin. Especially
if we start the refrigeration sequence after we shrink memory. Right?

        -pat

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