| Date | Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:21:07 -0700 | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Subject | Re: [patch V2 07/15] powerpc/ps3: Convert half completion to rcuwait |
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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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