linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems.

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Message-Id: <E1KuQPx-0002Yz-7K@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:37:53 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	ncunningham@...a.org.au
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, rjw@...k.pl,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen
	filesystems.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> It doesn't matter why a process is sitting in that wait_event call. What
> does matter is that one can be there.

Right, but it could also be sleeping in any other wait_event(),
mutex_lock(), etc, resulting in the same issue.

> No, it's part of the solution. I haven't posted the full fuse freezing
> patch because I thought this could be profitably merged without the rest
> of the patch.

Please post the full patch, it'd be a lot better to see the big
picture instead of just a small part of it.

Thanks,
Miklos
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