Re: [PATCH 3/9] PM: suspend_block: Abort task freezing if a suspend_blocker is active.

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On Sat 2009-05-09 01:01:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 09 May 2009, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 16:40 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > The timeout is actually a workaround for the problem that we don't
> > > really
> > > know if tasks are going to react to our freeze requests and how much time it is
> > > going to take.  The current value of 20 s was chosen after a number of
> > > experiments showing that in some cases the freezing _was_ going to take so
> > > much time.  Of course the question is whether it makes sense to give up earlier
> > > even if tasks would eventually freeze, but that's a different issue.
> > 
> > What were the circumstances in which freezing could take 20s?
> 
> Compiling the kernel with "make -j<big number>" on a dual core system IIRC.

IIRC the number happened because I saw up to 5sec under some heavy
overload, and added some "safety margin".
									Pavel
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