Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:30:02 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 12/12] kthread: Better support freezable kthread workers |
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:17:31PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > This patch allows to make kthread worker freezable via a new @flags > parameter. It will allow to avoid an init work in some kthreads. > > It currently does not affect the function of kthread_worker_fn() > but it might help to do some optimization or fixes eventually. > > I currently do not know about any other use for the @flags > parameter but I believe that we will want more flags > in the future. > > Finally, I hope that it will not cause confusion with @flags member > in struct kthread. Well, I guess that we will want to rework the > basic kthreads implementation once all kthreads are converted into > kthread workers or workqueues. It is possible that we will merge > the two structures. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
-- tejun
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