Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:50:44 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [NFS] kthread: update lockd to use kthread |
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:07:59PM +0200, Cedric Le Goater wrote: > This kernel thread is a sub thread of the lockd thread. It's a bit more > simple and does not require as much modification. It still depends on the > way its parent is killed and it will require some more work when the sunrpc > thread are fixed.
Yes, the whole sunrpc/nfs thread situation is rather difficult.
> The SIGKILL used to terminate the threads is a challenge ... it propagates > to sub threads. Some other stuff that bother me in using the kthread api in > sunrpc : nfs_callback_down() uses a wait on a completion with a timeout. > This is not possible with the kthread but might not be really useful. dunno.
The usage look buggy to me because we can't guarantee thread exit. But I really don't even understand the requirements for those threads yet, I wish someone could write up a coherent description.
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