From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qg0-f70.google.com (mail-qg0-f70.google.com [209.85.192.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADCA6B007E for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:30:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qg0-f70.google.com with SMTP id c103so93373395qge.1 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-yw0-x243.google.com (mail-yw0-x243.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4002:c05::243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n10si2594178ybc.234.2016.04.22.11.30.42 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:30:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-yw0-x243.google.com with SMTP id o63so16564507ywe.0 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:30:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:30:40 -0400 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/20] kthread: Use kthread worker API more widely Message-ID: <20160422183040.GW7822@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <1460646879-617-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1460646879-617-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Petr Mladek Cc: Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , "Paul E. McKenney" , Josh Triplett , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Jiri Kosina , Borislav Petkov , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Corey Minyard , openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, Doug Ledford , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Maxim Levitsky , Zhang Rui , Eduardo Valentin , Jacob Pan , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Hello, Petr. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:14:19PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > My intention is to make it easier to manipulate and maintain kthreads. > Especially, I want to replace all the custom main cycles with a > generic one. Also I want to make the kthreads sleep in a consistent > state in a common place when there is no work. > > My first attempt was with a brand new API (iterant kthread), see > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.api/11892 . But I was > directed to improve the existing kthread worker API. This is > the 4th iteration of the new direction. > > 1nd..10th patches: improve the existing kthread worker API I glanced over them and they generally look good to me. Let's see how people respond to actual conversions. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org