From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750784AbWFZQix (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:38:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750789AbWFZQix (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:38:53 -0400 Received: from cust9421.vic01.dataco.com.au ([203.171.70.205]:43500 "EHLO nigel.suspend2.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbWFZQiv (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:38:51 -0400 From: Nigel Cunningham To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:38:50 +1000 Subject: [Suspend2][ 0/2] Freezer Upgrade Message-Id: <20060626163850.10345.13807.stgit@nigel.suspend2.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: StGIT/0.9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patches to upgrade the freezer and disable the updating of the load average while we're suspended. The former is primarily quieting debugging information, adding support for thawing kernel threads without thawing userspace and freezing bdevs. The later is needed because suspending is very cpu intensive, and the load average will be high post-resume if we don't do this. Having a high load average will in turn cause some processes such as mtas to delay their work until the number drops.