Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755775AbYJ2Vpm (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:45:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755049AbYJ2VpV (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:45:21 -0400 Received: from mail.crca.org.au ([67.207.131.56]:60222 "EHLO crca.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754971AbYJ2VpU (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:45:20 -0400 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems. From: Nigel Cunningham To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Alan Stern , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi In-Reply-To: <200810292211.49021.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <200810292211.49021.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Christian Reformed Churches of Australia Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:45:15 +1100 Message-Id: <1225316715.18786.1.camel@nigel-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 18 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. Nigel -- 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/