Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:24:41 +1000 | Subject | Re: [NFS] [PATCH 008 of 11] knfsd: add svc_set_num_threads |
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On Sunday July 30, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:42:23 +1000 > NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote: > > > + /* destroy old threads */ > > + while (nrservs < 0 && > > + (victim = choose_victim(serv, pool, &state)) != NULL) { > > + send_sig(serv->sv_kill_signal, victim, 1); > > + nrservs++; > > Using signals to communicate with kernel threads is rather baroque - we > have a range of less klunky ways of controlling kernel threads in-kernel.
True.
> > The containers guys are going through converting lots of these things over > to the kthread API - I believe it's a requirement for containerisation. >
Yes - hch has suggested that this needs to be a done. I had a try and there were enough complications that I decided to leave it to asked Greg's NUMA stuff.
> nfsd/rpc is going to be one of the hard ones to convert, but it's going to > happen.
yep.
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