Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Hibernation Redesign | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:27:26 +0200 |
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On Wednesday, 11 July 2007 14:09, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Freezing of tasks is slowing down suspend. Don't know how serious > > > this is, suspend is pretty fast, but could possibly be even faster. > > > > It's FUD. Freezing of tasks normally takes next to no time. I've never > > understood the rediculously long timeout it has. If freezing succeeds, all > > processes are frozen within 1/2 a second tops. If it fails, nothing is going > > to change in the following 19.5 seconds (or whatever it is if I don't > > remember the value properly). > > Right. The 20s timeout is again a sign of brokenness.
Are you still serious?
> If we expect something to fail, it should fail immediately, without > waiting for arbitrary timeouts.
I don't agree. If you think so, then please tell me what the softlockup infrastructure is for.
> And if we don't expect it to fail, why the timeout?
We know that it can fail, so we use the timeout to detect failures.
> Of course we know it can fail (network problems, etc), so it's wrong > whatever way we look at it.
Are you trying to say that whatever can fail is wrong?
Greetings, Rafael
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