Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2008 10:31:01 -0500 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [Jfs-discussion] Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:21:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> Well, we could refcount the number of active xfs instances and >> start/stop the global threads based on that. Not really worth my >> time IHMO, but if someone comes up with a clean enough patch it should >> go in. > > Actually doing it in the VFS might be even better. Add ->init and > ->exit methods to struct file_system_type and then the filesystems can > move most of module_init/exit into the new methods.
Hmm I like that idea! :)
-Eric
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