Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues

From: Gautham R Shenoy
Date: Wed Apr 11 2007 - 07:23:07 EST


On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:13:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> It should be calling try_to_freeze() somewhere anyway. We may need to freeze
> all tasks in some cases.

How about
for (;;) {
try_to_freeze();

?

This change allows us to make all the worker threads freezeable by default.
>From cpu-hotplug perspective, helper_wq was the only singlethreaded
non-freezeable workqueue.

>
> Greetings,
> Rafael
> -

Thanks and Regards
gautham.
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Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
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