Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Thu Sep 11 2014 - 16:42:46 EST


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> There are elements in common, but by and
>> large the biggest headaches at least in large device number boots have
>> already been tackled by the enterprise crowd (they don't like their
>> S390's or 1024 core NUMA systems taking half an hour to come up).
>
> Please do not position this as a mostly solved large systems problem,
> For us it is touchpad detection stalling kernel for 0.5-1 sec. Which is
> a lot given that we boot in seconds.

Dmitry, would working on top of the aysnc series be reasonable? Then
we could address these as separate things which we'd build on top of.
The one aspect I see us needing to share is the "async probe universe
is OK" flag.

Luis
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