On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 11:21:46PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > I think we can add a flag to __create_workqueue() that will indicate if > this one is to be running with PF_NOFREEZE and a corresponding macro like > create_freezable_workqueue() to be used wherever we want the worker thread > to freeze (in which case it should be calling try_to_freeze() somewhere). > Then, we can teach filesystems to use this macro instead of > create_workqueue(). At what point does the workqueue get frozen? i.e. how does this guarantee an unfrozen filesystem will end up in a consistent state? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
