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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 1/6] Freezer: Do not sync filesystems
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:31:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070710003145.GA4624@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070709231209.GF1967@elf.ucw.cz>

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:12:09AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > 
> > The syncing of filesystems from within the freezer is generally not needed.
> > Also, if FUSE implements sync, this will cause the freezer to deadlock with it.
> 
> While this is right, I do not think it is good enough reason for a
> change. I mean, sync there currently hurts noone....

It's a problem if you have an ext3 filesystem loopback mounted from a 
fuse filesystem...

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09 20:29 [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/6] Freezer update Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-09 20:31 ` [RFC][PATCH -mm 1/6] Freezer: Do not sync filesystems Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-09 23:12   ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-10  0:31     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-07-09 20:32 ` [RFC][PATCH -mm 2/6] Freezer: Do not send signals to kernel threads Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-09 23:42   ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-10  5:57     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 15:00   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-10 21:08     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 21:22       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-09 20:33 ` [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/6] Freezer: Be more verbose Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-09 23:46   ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-10  6:01     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 15:05       ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-09 20:34 ` [RFC][PATCH -mm 4/6] Freezer: Prevent new tasks from inheriting TIF_FREEZE set Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-09 23:21   ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-10  6:03     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 15:05       ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-09 20:38 ` [RFC][PATCH -mm 5/6] Freezer: Use freezing timeout more efficiently Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-09 23:34   ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-10  6:09     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 10:04       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 17:17         ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-10 20:30           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 20:55             ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-10 21:15               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 18:50         ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-10 19:54           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 20:35             ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-10 20:57               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 21:13         ` bogosort (was Re: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 5/6] Freezer: Use freezing timeout more efficiently) Pavel Machek
2007-07-10 21:38           ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-10 21:39           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 21:39             ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-10 22:07               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-10 22:21                 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-23  8:04                 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-23 19:16                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-09 20:41 ` [RFC][PATCH -mm 6/6] Freezer: Document relationship with memory shrinking Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-09 23:23   ` Pavel Machek

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