From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
NFS <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: state manager thread must stay running.
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:11:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140817131156.GB7679@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140813140831.22f3e9c7@notabene.brown>
Hello, Neil.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 02:08:31PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> There are two interesting requirements for the manager thread:
> 1/ It must allow SIGKILL, which can abort NFS transactions to
> a dead server.
> 2/ It may continue running after the filesystem is unmounted,
> until the server recovers or the thread is SIGKILLed
Out of curiosity, why is SIGKILL handling necessary at all? Can't nfs
just keep the manager running while any mount is active?
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-17 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-13 4:08 [PATCH] NFS: state manager thread must stay running NeilBrown
2014-08-17 13:11 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2014-08-17 21:14 ` NeilBrown
2014-08-18 14:29 ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-17 1:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-09-17 3:05 ` NeilBrown
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