Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 09 Feb 2002 18:55:22 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kthread abstraction, take two |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This is a new version of the ktread abstraction which incorporates > suggestions by Andi Kleen, Jeff Garzik and Andrew Morton. > > The changes are: > > - kthread_start now takes a void * for the user-data, so it doesn't > have to be part of struct kthread. > - the main method of struct kthread now returns an integers, if it > is negative, the thread will be stopped. > - kthread_main no more does the scheduling, it has to be done by > the mainloop now.
Nice. I like it.
Would you consider converting a few places in the kernel to use kthread, just as an example to show people what a sample implementation would look like?
Jeff
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