From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tidy up scsi_error_handler
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:28:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051028232843.GC21871@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051028230155.GA13083@lst.de>
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:01:55AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> /*
> - * Note - we always use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE even if the module
> - * was loaded as part of the kernel. The reason is that
> - * UNINTERRUPTIBLE would cause this thread to be counted in
> - * the load average as a running process, and an interruptible
> - * wait doesn't.
> + * We use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE so that the thread is not
> + * counted against the load average as a running process.
> + * We never actually get interrupted because kthread_run
> + * disables singal delivery for the created thread.
tpyo "signal".
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2005-10-28 23:01 [PATCH 1/2] tidy up scsi_error_handler Christoph Hellwig
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