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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:53:08 -0700
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 01:42:20PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  There are elements in common, but by and
> >> large the biggest headaches at least in large device number boots have
> >> already been tackled by the enterprise crowd (they don't like their
> >> S390's or 1024 core NUMA systems taking half an hour to come up).
> >
> > Please do not position this as a mostly solved large systems problem,
> > For us it is touchpad detection stalling kernel for 0.5-1 sec. Which is
> > a lot given that we boot in seconds.
> 
> Dmitry, would working on top of the aysnc series be reasonable? Then
> we could address these as separate things which we'd build on top of.
> The one aspect I see us needing to share is the "async probe universe
> is OK" flag.

Sure. Are you planning on refreshing your series? I think the
code-related discussion kind of stalled...

-- 
Dmitry