From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p72EDs1N105288 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 09:13:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4E38061E.1070206@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:13:50 -0500 From: Bill Kendall MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfsdump: remove SIGCHLD handling References: <1311972011-1446-1-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com> <1311972011-1446-4-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com> <20110802102245.GA22979@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20110802102245.GA22979@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 > > Looks good, > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig > > 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs