Re: [RFC][PATCH][EXPERIMENTAL] Make kernel threads nonfreezable bydefault
From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Tue May 29 2007 - 18:15:53 EST
Hi.
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:13 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:59, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:15 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Please have a look at the current version of the patch (appended).
> > >
> > > I have followed the Nigel's suggestion not to change the current behavior
> > > in this patch (I'll add a couple of patches removing the freezability from
> > > some kernel threads), with one exception: I couldn't figure out any reason
> > > to have try_to_freeze() called in net/sunrpc/svcsock.c:svc_recv() .
> >
> > Thanks. IIRC, svcsock is related to the NFS server code.
> >
> > > I've also added a piece of documentation, freezing-of-tasks.txt . Please
> > > see if it's not missing anything (I'd like it to be quite complete).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Mostly just grammar and the odd typo. On the whole, it's really well
> > written and perfectly readable - great job!
>
> Thanks a lot for all of the comments, they are really helpful. :-)
Thank you for doing all this work in the first place!
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Regards,
Nigel
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