On Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:56, Alex Dubov wrote: > > > > > > - Do we need freezeable workqueues ? > > > > > > Well, we have at least one case in which they appear to be useful. > > > > I need freezeable wq exactly for the fact that they are synchronized with > suspend/resume. My > workitem may do device_register/unregister and it can (and will be) scheduled > from irq handler > during resume. As far as I understand, before freezeable wqs, kthreads were > the only way to > achieve this behavior,
That's correct. > which is less convenient. Thanks for the explanation. 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/
