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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
To: "darrick.wong@oracle.com" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	"mcgrof@kernel.org" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: "jlayton@redhat.com" <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	"jikos@kernel.org" <jikos@kernel.org>,
	"jack@suse.cz" <jack@suse.cz>,
	"david@fromorbit.com" <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"rafael@kernel.org" <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Phasing out kernel thread freezing
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 22:41:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1517784089.26121.2.camel@wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180131191016.GC4841@magnolia>

On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 11:10 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> For a brief moment I pondered whether it would make sense to make
> filesystems part of the device model so that the suspend code could work
> out fs <-> bdev dependencies and know in which order to freeze
> filesystems and quiesce devices, but every time I go digging into how
> all those macros work I get confused and my eyes glaze over, so I don't
> know if this is at all a good idea or just confused ramblings.

If we have to go this way: shouldn't we introduce a new abstraction
("storage stack element" or similar) rather than making filesystems part of
the device model?

Thanks,

Bart.




  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-04 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-26  9:09 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Phasing out kernel thread freezing Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-01-31 19:10 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-04 22:41   ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2018-02-05  8:28     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-24  3:27       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-02-25  9:45         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-25 17:22           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-02-26  9:25             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-26 12:44               ` Jan Kara
2018-02-26 13:27                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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