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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: convert nfs4 callback thread to kthread API
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:58:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080222045858.GA12389@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203515730-15974-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:55:30AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> There's a general push to convert kernel threads to use the (much
> cleaner) kthread API. This patch converts the NFSv4 callback kernel
> thread to the kthread API. In addition to being generally cleaner this
> also removes the dependency on signals when shutting down the thread.
> 
> Note that this patch depends on the recent patches to svc_recv() to
> make it check kthread_should_stop() periodically. Those patches are
> in Bruce's tree at the moment and are slated for 2.6.26 along with
> the lockd conversion, so this conversion is probably also appropriate
> for 2.6.26.

Thanks, applied.  (With a slight modification to make it apply against
upstream, by reverting the addition of the flush_signals().  I assume
that's right.)

--b.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 13:55 [PATCH] NFS: convert nfs4 callback thread to kthread API Jeff Layton
2008-02-20 15:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-02-20 15:13   ` Jeff Layton
2008-02-20 15:15   ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-02-20 15:39     ` Trond Myklebust
2008-02-22  4:58 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2008-02-22 11:18   ` Jeff Layton

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