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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "<Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	containers@lists.osdl.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:58:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1177394302.14873.97.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zm4ytjhg.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

> Since we need to have some way to track them having an explicit data
> structure that the callers manage seems to make sense.

Oh sure, I wasn't arguing against that at all...

It might be handy to have a release() callback (optional) that gets
called after the kthread stops/exits, once we know the data structure
isn't going to be used anymore (if practical to implement, depends on
your approach).

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-24  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m1slawn9eb.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
     [not found] ` <11769695763104-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
2007-04-22 12:31   ` [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-23 20:50     ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-24  1:38       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-24  2:08         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-24  2:42           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-24  3:20             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-24  4:34               ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-24  4:51                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-24  5:00               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-24  5:43                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-24  5:58                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-04-24  6:17                   ` SOME STUFF ABOUT REISER4 lkml777
2007-04-24  7:46                 ` [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API Cornelia Huck
2007-04-24 17:24         ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-24  5:55     ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-24  8:37       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-24 17:35     ` Linas Vepstas

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