From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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 09:37:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424083737.GA26814@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17965.39866.351929.349735@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:55:06PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig writes:
>
> > The first question is obviously, is this really something we want?
> > spawning kernel thread on demand without reaping them properly seems
> > quite dangerous.
>
> What specifically has to be done to reap a kernel thread? Are you
> concerned about the number of threads, or about having zombies hanging
> around?
I'm mostly concerned about number of threads and possible leakage of
threads. Linas already explained it's not a problem in this case,
so it's covered.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 8:38 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
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 [this message]
2007-04-24 17:35 ` Linas Vepstas
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