From: Bill Kendall <wkendall@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfsdump: remove SIGCHLD handling
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:13:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E38061E.1070206@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110802102245.GA22979@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:40:10PM -0500, Bill Kendall wrote:
>> The multi-stream version of xfsdump for IRIX used sprocs for
>> threading. When a "thread" exits with sprocs, a SIGCHLD is sent to
>> the main thread just as if a regular child process exited. A future
>> multi-stream version of xfsdump would use pthreads, so the SIGCHLD
>> code is no longer needed. So:
>>
>> - No longer register for or handle SIGCHLD (SIGCLD).
>> - Remove signal handling code for child processes.
>> - Remove cldmgr_killall() as there are no children.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall <wkendall@sgi.com>
>
> Looks good,
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> does this mean you're actively working on multi-threaded dump for Linux?
Indeed...I didn't want to come right out and say it, in case I get side
tracked. :) But hoping to have patches up for review in the next week or
two.
Bill
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-29 20:40 [PATCH 0/4] xfsdump: convert to using the POSIX signal API Bill Kendall
2011-07-29 20:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfsdump: remove conditional OPENMASKED code Bill Kendall
2011-08-02 10:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-02 14:07 ` Bill Kendall
2011-07-29 20:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfsdump: process EPIPE instead of catching SIGPIPE Bill Kendall
2011-08-02 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-29 20:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfsdump: remove SIGCHLD handling Bill Kendall
2011-08-02 10:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-02 14:13 ` Bill Kendall [this message]
2011-07-29 20:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfsdump: convert to the POSIX signal API Bill Kendall
2011-08-03 10:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 10:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 12:11 ` Bill Kendall
2011-08-03 12:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 19:28 ` Bill Kendall
2011-08-04 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-04 12:35 ` Bill Kendall
2011-08-04 12:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 10:59 ` [PATCH 0/4] xfsdump: convert to using " Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 11:57 ` Bill Kendall
2011-08-03 12:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 12:07 ` Bill Kendall
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