On Wednesday, 28 February 2007 10:10, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:48:59AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 02/28, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > > We can just thaw the worker thread selectively before kthread_stopping > > > them. This will let us freeze all worker threads (which we want to for > > > hotplug anyway). > > > > I am not sure this is a good change for 2.6.21. > > So we make that change when merging the freezer-based hotplug patchset?
Well, if we want to have freezable workqueues eventually, and I think we do, they should be taken into consideration in designing this patchset, as well as the suspend code ordering (ie. freeze_processes(SUSPEND) before freeze_processes(CPU_HOTPLUG)). Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
