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From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>, linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcachefs: Remove unnecessary kthread_should_stop()
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 06:49:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZZabVJRLBHTTcP2u@bfoster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231219205538.5mcxzxnwt5djptjl@moria.home.lan>

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 03:55:38PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 08:01:59AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 09:51:40AM +0800, Kevin Hao wrote:
> > > In the macro kthread_wait_freezable(), there is already a check for
> > > kthread_should_stop(), so there is no need to pass kthread_should_stop()
> > > as a parameter to kthread_wait_freezable().
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Looks right to me:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
> 
> It is technically correct, but recently the issues have been more with
> having too few kthread_should_stop() calls, not too many; I think I want
> to leave this for now, even though it's redundant it's more explicit.
> 

What recent issues do you mean? ISTM this logic serves more as a placebo
than anything. Is there a more explicit issue to dig into?

Brian


      reply	other threads:[~2024-01-04 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-16  1:51 [PATCH] bcachefs: Remove unnecessary kthread_should_stop() Kevin Hao
2023-12-19 13:01 ` Brian Foster
2023-12-19 20:55   ` Kent Overstreet
2024-01-04 11:49     ` Brian Foster [this message]

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