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DateTue, 10 Apr 2007 04:16:53 -0400
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.
Russell King wrote:
> Could probably be eliminated if we had some mechanism to spawn a helper
> thread to do some task as required which didn't block other helper
> threads until it completes.

kthread_run() should go that for you.  Creates a new thread with 
kthread_create(), and wakes it up immediately.  Goes away when you're 
done with it.

	Jeff


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