Re: [PATCH] [5/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 350-workthreads.patch

Pavel Machek
2005-07-12T10:58:05Z

Hi!

> > Again, why do you think you need this?
>
> 1. If something should be wrong with the freezer, it forms part of a
> safety net that stops your data on disk being trashed.

> 2. Separating out threads doing syncing from threads submitting I/O
> makes the refrigerator much more reliable, even under extreme load.

This seems to be red herring. Sometimes sync took way too long (like
hours) with older kernels and reiserfs, but I believe that has been
fixed. If not, we need to fix it, anyway; no need to work around it in
suspend2.
Pavel
--
teflon -- maybe it is a trademark, but it should not be.