linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/10] freezer: skip waking up tasks with PF_FREEZER

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Message-ID: <14549764.SU5BpuG0MO@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:48:43 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] freezer: skip waking up tasks with PF_FREEZER_SKIP set

On Monday, April 29, 2013 03:16:24 PM Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 03:08:31PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > spent freezing by a factor of 5.  It will have a similar effect on a
> > > non-Android system, although those generally don't care about
> > > suspend/resume optimization.
> > 
> > Yeah, if it's something which makes actual difference rather than
> > "this seems to be a good idea" thing, sure, let's find a way.
> 
> And a probably better approach would be rolling should_skip test into
> freeze_task() with a comment explaining the interlocking rather than
> adding should_skip test in its callers.

Agreed.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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