Re: [Patch] Per kthread freezer flags

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 18:13:02 EST


Hi.

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 08:57, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> Well, I've tried the kthread freezer patch against 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 and it
> works fine. However, with kthread freezer applied, suspending and
> resuming is much slower (around 5 seconds slower). Thus, I guess all my
> problems must be related to some specific patch I'm applying against the
> current -bk tree.

Okay. That might be due to the treatment of ksoftirqd, which Pavel and I
have agreed needs changing.

> I'll keep investigating this issue, but I think voluntary-preempt might
> have some strange interactions with these kthread changes.

Me too, when I get a chance. I'm running rc2-mm1 now, and it seems okay.
Especially since I turned off USB 2 support in the BIOS :>

Nigel

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