Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozenfilesystems.

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Wed Oct 29 2008 - 22:04:22 EST


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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