On Wednesday, 28 February 2007 01:01, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:57 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Okay, in that case I'd suggest removing create_freezeable_workqueue() and > > make all workqueues nonfreezable once again for 2.6.21 (as far as I know, > > only > > the two XFS workqueues are affected). > > I think Nigel might object but I forgot what specific trouble XFS was > causing him.
We suspected that the XFS' worker threads might commit I/O after freeze_processes() has returned, but that hasn't been supported by evidence, as far as I can recall. Also, making them freezable was controversial ... Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
