Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755235AbYJ3CEV (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:04:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752399AbYJ3CEJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:04:09 -0400 Received: from mail.crca.org.au ([67.207.131.56]:33623 "EHLO crca.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752004AbYJ3CEI (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:04:08 -0400 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems. From: Nigel Cunningham To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <200810292211.49021.rjw@sisk.pl> <1225316715.18786.1.camel@nigel-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Christian Reformed Churches of Australia Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:04:02 +1100 Message-Id: <1225371842.8576.6.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: 1179 Lines: 32 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 -- 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/