Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:57:56 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Lockups with 2.4.14 and 2.4.16 |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > > I'll try this, and also add kinoded so we can avoid using keventd. I'm wary > > using keventd for that doesn't look too bad to me. Just like we do with > the dirty inode flushing. keventd doesn't do anything 99.9% of the time, > so it sounds a bit wasteful to add yet another daemon that will remain > idle 99% of the time too... :)
Well heck, let's use ksoftirqd then :)
keventd is used for real-time things - deferred interrupt actions. It should be SCHED_FIFO.
Actually, kupdated almost does what's needed already. I suspect a wakeup_kupdate() would suffice.
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