From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software suspend testing in 2.6.0-test1
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:04:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718180449.GB195@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307181101110.22018-100000@cherise>
Hi!
> > I wanted to avoid that: we do want user threads refrigerated at that
> > point so that we know noone is allocating memory as we are trying to
> > do memory shrink. I'd like to avoid having refrigerator run in two
> > phases....
>
> But we should be the only process running, and we can guarantee that by
> not sleeping and doing preempt_disable() when we begin. Especially
> if we start the refrigeration sequence after we shrink
> memory. Right?
If we refrigerate after we shrink, userspace can allocate everything
just after shrink.
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-17 19:46 Software suspend testing in 2.6.0-test1 Peter Osterlund
2003-07-17 20:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-17 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 9:59 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-18 10:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 15:22 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-18 15:55 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-18 16:45 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 17:50 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-18 18:02 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-07-18 18:04 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-07-18 21:05 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-18 19:37 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 19:58 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-18 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-18 22:13 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-20 0:22 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-20 1:01 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-20 7:45 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-18 21:05 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-21 10:00 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-21 12:58 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-21 14:36 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-21 21:28 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-21 23:46 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-22 11:04 ` Pavel Machek
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