From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Software suspend testing in 2.6.0-test1
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 09:05:53 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058562011.2015.17.camel@laptop-linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718094542.07b2685a.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 04:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Oh, we shouldn't be doing this sort of thing when the kernel threads are
> refrigerated. We do need kswapd services for the trick you tried.
>
> And all flavours of ext3_writepage() can block on kjournald activity, so if
> kjournald is refrigerated during the memory shrink the machine can deadlock.
>
> It would be much better to freeze kernel threads _after_ doing the big
> memory shrink.
Yes, that's what the 2.4 version does. And it freezes the kernel threads
in a particular order to avoid deadlocking.
Regards,
Nigel
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Christ died for the ungodly.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-17 19:46 Software suspend testing in 2.6.0-test1 Peter Osterlund
2003-07-17 20:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-17 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 9:59 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-18 10:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 15:22 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-18 15:55 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-18 16:45 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 17:50 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-18 18:02 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-07-18 18:04 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-18 21:05 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-18 19:37 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 19:58 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-18 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 22:13 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-20 0:22 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-20 1:01 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-20 7:45 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-18 21:05 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2003-07-21 10:00 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-21 12:58 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-21 14:36 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-21 21:28 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-21 23:46 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-22 11:04 ` Pavel Machek
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