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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".


      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-28 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-28 23:01 [PATCH 1/2] tidy up scsi_error_handler Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-28 23:28 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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