Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] PM / Runtime: force memory allocation with noI/O during runtime_resume callbcack

From: Ming Lei
Date: Wed Oct 17 2012 - 07:07:21 EST


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This appears to be a bit too heavy handed. First of all, it seems to affect
> all memory allocations going in parallel with the resume callback. Second,

No, the flag is per task, only memory allocation inside resume callback
is effected.

> it affects all resume callbacks, not only those where the problem really

We can do it only on block device, block device's ancestor and network
devices(iSCSI case), but that may introduce policy into PM core or add
one flag of memalloc_noio_resume into 'dev_pm_info', could you agree
on it?


Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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