Re: [Jfs-discussion] Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2)

Eric Sandeen
2008-05-13T15:30:38Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:21:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Well, we could refcount the number of active xfs instances and
>> start/stop the global threads based on that. Not really worth my
>> time IHMO, but if someone comes up with a clean enough patch it should
>> go in.
>
> Actually doing it in the VFS might be even better. Add ->init and
> ->exit methods to struct file_system_type and then the filesystems can
> move most of module_init/exit into the new methods.

Hmm I like that idea! :)

-Eric