Please stop apps going into state D uninterrupted sleep !!

[Sam Varshavchik]

Joe Zeff writes:

> On 05/08/2012 02:31 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> I think you're underestimating the amount of extra effort this would
>> require for each program.
>
> Actually, I was thinking in terms of "if this switch is set, don't use  
> uninturrupted sleep."

It's not up to the app. This is not an optional system call. If the kernel  
wants to put the task into uninterruptible sleep, that's what it will do.  
End of story.

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