Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752450AbYJ0Lid (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:38:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752487AbYJ0LiL (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:38:11 -0400 Received: from fxip-0047f.externet.hu ([88.209.222.127]:45528 "EHLO pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752449AbYJ0LiI (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:38:08 -0400 To: ncunningham@crca.org.au CC: miklos@szeredi.hu, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <1225106427.26724.5.camel@nigel-laptop> (message from Nigel Cunningham on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:20:27 +1100) Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems. References: <1224886068.6478.21.camel@nigel-laptop> <200810262101.08822.rjw@sisk.pl> <1225106427.26724.5.camel@nigel-laptop> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:37:53 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 21 On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > It doesn't matter why a process is sitting in that wait_event call. What > does matter is that one can be there. Right, but it could also be sleeping in any other wait_event(), mutex_lock(), etc, resulting in the same issue. > No, it's part of the solution. I haven't posted the full fuse freezing > patch because I thought this could be profitably merged without the rest > of the patch. Please post the full patch, it'd be a lot better to see the big picture instead of just a small part of it. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/