Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: + work_on_cpu-rewrite-it-to-create-a-kernel-thread-on-demand.patch added to -mm tree | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:13:06 -0800 |
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I should follow up and say that the reason I care right now, is I am digging into pci hotplug. One of the issues I'm fighting is that currently I appear to need a dedicated kernel thread for each pci hotplug slot. It gets easy to deadlock the kernel hotplugging a hotplug controller otherwise.
Eric
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