linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH][EXPERIMENTAL] Make kernel threads nonfreezable by default

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Message-Id: <1180476943.20718.53.camel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 08:15:43 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][EXPERIMENTAL] Make kernel threads nonfreezable by
	default

Hi.

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:13 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:59, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:15 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Please have a look at the current version of the patch (appended).
> > > 
> > > I have followed the Nigel's suggestion not to change the current behavior
> > > in this patch (I'll add a couple of patches removing the freezability from
> > > some kernel threads), with one exception: I couldn't figure out any reason
> > > to have try_to_freeze() called in net/sunrpc/svcsock.c:svc_recv() .
> > 
> > Thanks. IIRC, svcsock is related to the NFS server code.
> > 
> > > I've also added a piece of documentation, freezing-of-tasks.txt .  Please
> > > see if it's not missing anything (I'd like it to be quite complete).
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Mostly just grammar and the odd typo. On the whole, it's really well
> > written and perfectly readable - great job!
> 
> Thanks a lot for all of the comments, they are really helpful. :-)

Thank you for doing all this work in the first place!

Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>

Regards,

Nigel

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