Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:16:53 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
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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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