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

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Message-Id: <1225316715.18786.1.camel@nigel-laptop>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:45:15 +1100
From:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen
	filesystems.

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.

Nigel

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