Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:54:17 -0400 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] export wake_up_process on 2.2.17 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > well, if you do your own locking then yes. With waitqueues you need no > extra locking as far as thread exits go, and they are more generic. > wake_up_process() is used only a few very specific and kernel-internal > cases.
We followed the bdflush() example. Should we still use wake_up_process, or waitqueues for a bdflush-type kernel thread? What will future versions of bdflush use (or will bdflush simply be replaced with something better)?
Thanks!
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