From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751399AbXE2WPu (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 18:15:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750883AbXE2WPn (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 18:15:43 -0400 Received: from nigel.suspend2.net ([203.171.70.205]:54165 "EHLO nigel.suspend2.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750870AbXE2WPm (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 18:15:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][EXPERIMENTAL] Make kernel threads nonfreezable by default From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Pavel Machek , LKML , Andrew Morton , Gautham R Shenoy , Linus Torvalds , Oleg Nesterov In-Reply-To: <200705300013.14750.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <200705270012.59177.rjw@sisk.pl> <200705291415.31970.rjw@sisk.pl> <1180443572.20718.29.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <200705300013.14750.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-vCpKqWdFn2FDD0jXK1/R" Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 08:15:43 +1000 Message-Id: <1180476943.20718.53.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-vCpKqWdFn2FDD0jXK1/R Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi. On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:13 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:59, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > >=20 > > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:15 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Please have a look at the current version of the patch (appended). > > >=20 > > > I have followed the Nigel's suggestion not to change the current beha= vior > > > in this patch (I'll add a couple of patches removing the freezability= from > > > some kernel threads), with one exception: I couldn't figure out any r= eason > > > to have try_to_freeze() called in net/sunrpc/svcsock.c:svc_recv() . > >=20 > > Thanks. IIRC, svcsock is related to the NFS server code. > >=20 > > > I've also added a piece of documentation, freezing-of-tasks.txt . Pl= ease > > > see if it's not missing anything (I'd like it to be quite complete). > >=20 > > [...] > >=20 > > Mostly just grammar and the odd typo. On the whole, it's really well > > written and perfectly readable - great job! >=20 > Thanks a lot for all of the comments, they are really helpful. :-) Thank you for doing all this work in the first place! Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham Regards, Nigel --=-vCpKqWdFn2FDD0jXK1/R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGXKYPN0y+n1M3mo0RAhJAAKCnK2YrlpM8mlUnzEwbJ7WvnD1DgACdGaVh TvIGdJdBceWG589gm89Xw8Q= =A/zG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-vCpKqWdFn2FDD0jXK1/R--