From: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vatsa@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:51:05 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070411112105.GA24813@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704111213.35523.rjw@sisk.pl>
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:13:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> It should be calling try_to_freeze() somewhere anyway. We may need to freeze
> all tasks in some cases.
How about
for (;;) {
try_to_freeze();
?
This change allows us to make all the worker threads freezeable by default.
>From cpu-hotplug perspective, helper_wq was the only singlethreaded
non-freezeable workqueue.
>
> Greetings,
> Rafael
> -
Thanks and Regards
gautham.
--
Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
"Freedom comes with a price tag of responsibility, which is still a bargain,
because Freedom is priceless!"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 18:51 [PATCH 2/3] make kernel threads invisible to /sbin/init Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-10 23:16 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-11 3:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 3:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 11:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 5:44 ` [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 7:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 10:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-11 11:21 ` Gautham R Shenoy [this message]
2007-04-11 11:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 13:31 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-11 14:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 19:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-11 14:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-11 18:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 18:27 ` [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues (take 2) Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 18:49 ` [PATCH] Change reparent_to_init to reparent_to_kthreadd Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 19:21 ` [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues (take 2) Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 19:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 19:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 19:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 20:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 12:04 ` [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 16:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 13:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 16:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
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