Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Feb 21 2007 - 14:43:27 EST


Hi!

> Rafael,
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:24:45PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > Pavel, do you think we can remove the PF_NOFREEZE from bluetooth, BTW?
>
> The create_workqueue by default marks the worker_threads to be
> non_freezable. For cpu hotplug, all workqueues can be frozen
> except the "kthread" workqueue (which is single threaded, so won't
> be frozen anyway).
>
> And a quick cscope scan shows that only the "xfslogd" and "xfsdatad"
> are the only freezable workqueues. Any particular reason
> for not marking rest of the non-single_threaded workqueues freezeable ??

As I said, go ahead.

bluetooth has absolutely no business running while we are writing
suspend image to disk.

(First person suggesting
suspend-to-file-on-nfs-filesystem-mounted-over-GPRS-line-connected-over-bluetooth
will be punished by only getting bread and water till he implements
it).
Pavel
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