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SubjectRe: [patch V2 07/15] powerpc/ps3: Convert half completion to rcuwait
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>AFAICT the kthread uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to not increase loadavg, kthreads
>cannot receive signals by default and this one doesn't look different. Use
>TASK_IDLE instead.

Hmm it seems in general this needs to be done kernel-wide. This kthread abuse of
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE seems to be a common thing. There's also the users doing
schedule_timeout_interruptible()...

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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