netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] freezer: add unsafe versions of freezable helpers

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Date:	Mon, 6 May 2013 15:14:20 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	linux-nfs <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Ben Chan <benchan@...omium.org>,
	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] freezer: add unsafe versions of freezable helpers

Hello, Linus.

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:58:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Quite frankly, is it worth resurrecting these patches at all?
> 
> The only things it actually complained about are not worth the pain
> fixing and are getting explicitly not warned about - is there any
> reason to believe the patches are worth maintaining and the extra
> complexity is worth it?

It might not be too useful for nfs but Colin has a patchset spreading
the use of the freezable schedules in a number of places in an attempt
to reduce freeze latency for android, which includes introducing a lot
of schedule_*_freezable() constructs, so I think we need these
warnings one way or the other so that we don't end up with more
problems like nfs currently has.

Thakns.

-- 
tejun
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